“…sometimes I wish there wasn’t any such thing as anti-gerasone…”: A Deconstruction of Kurt Vonnegut’s “Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow” Anonymous College

Kurt Vonnegut’s “Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow” takes place in 2158 A.D, a time when people can procrastinate their deaths by using an anti-aging remedy , which makes it possible for people to live for over one hundred years, known as anti-gerasone ( it is made from ‘mud and dandelions’).The anti-gerasone is inexpensive due to the readily accessible ingredients. Towards the end of the story, another medicine known as supei-anti-gerasone is launched in the market; it is equally low-cost (costing fifty dollars) and it is meant for the people who are more than one hundred and fifty years. The supei-anti-gerasone is a solution to “wrinkles, by stiffness of joints and discoloration or loss of hair”, thus it is superior to anti-gerasone. “Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow”, exposes the perils of anti-aging medications and the aging reversal technologies.

Em, Lou’s wife accentuates the major argument when she confesses her intention to dilute the anti-gerasone so that Cramps, aged one hundred and seventy two years and who is the family’s patriarch, can die. She tells Lou, “Sometimes I get so mad, I feel like just up and diluting his anti-gerasone.” Here, Em is exasperated for the reason that Cramps has not died so far , his...