Kurt Vonnegut's Short Stories

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Why would the painter refer to the "Service" woman's dress as "the colour of grapes on Judgement Day"?

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The Happy Garden of Life depicts an impossibly formal, well-tended garden that is a metaphor for the world. Every body is interchangeable in the painting; in fact, they have already been painted. He merely fills in the blank circles above them with faces, which again evokes the theme of a lack of individuality. Through population control, people's lives are pruned like branches by gas chamber hostesses like Leora Duncan.

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