Cat's Cradle - An Immature Attempt

    As this novel was published as the first long fiction of Kurt Vonnegut,Cat's Cradle fell under the conventional category of metaphorical anti-war. Compared with other philosophically deep and linguistically satire fictions such as Catch-22, this novel emphasized on the absurdity of the world. Reading this was, to some extent, like reading Waiting for Godot, as the outcome was completely predictable. It attempted to convey the central idea that people live in the lies that they created by depicting the character Bokonon dying before the world ends. The title "Cat's cradle" is an embodiment of such an idea, as the "cat's cradle" is made purely out of a string. There is no cat, nor is there any cradle, therefore everything is merely a lie created by ourselves.