Relationships

It seems that Billy has little or no relationship with any person in his family what so ever.  His son, a Green Barrett, is a person that Billy himself claims he knows nothing of.  Billy even mentions that he does not care either.  His daughter is a person that seems to be the only one who is left to give two cares about Billy.  She constantly claims his insanity, yet every time that she says this, it seems Billy is not aware.  Additionally, Billy has what seems like a fruitless and pointless relationship with his wife.  It seems that she adores Billy; however, he seems to not care at all for him. Even at her death, it seems he did not care.  Going back to the pain he suffered in the war, Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse Five is trying to relate everything in the novel about how bad Billy is with relating to people in general.  ""He's simply echoing things we say""(Vonnegut, 192).