Steal The Heart, Or Steal The Money (Chapter 5)

After (finally) finishing reading chapter five of Slaughterhouse Five, there was a specific part that was stuck on my head. It was the part when Billy Pilgrim was morphined and was dreaming. At the same time he was time-travelling. He was at the hospital, because he was 'crazy' and his fiancee was here to visit him. "Billy didn't want to marry ugly Valencia. She was one of the symptoms of his disease." He described her as "She was as big as a house because she couldn't stop eating." (Pg 38-39, Slaughterhouse 5. Kurt Vonnegut) But before that, he had described her as rich, and her dad was rich, and owned a great company, and gave Billy a great job. This was the part that I kept on thinking on, becuase this is mainly how the greedy human kind works. If they find a fat, ugly, but rich girl, they would spend the rest if their lives with her just because of her money, and because the family has given them a great job of at least 30,000 dollars a year. From my point of view, it is one of the two following options: weather the person really likes their partner in the inside, feels butterflies in the stomach when they are together and would really spend the rest of their lives with because this person treats them the way they like, or they are pure gold-diggers. We can find both cases, and most of the cases are easily distinguishable. If in the news it appears '24 year old man marries a billionaire 70 year old' and the guy says ''I really like her, it's not for the money'', and two days later the lady dies of food poisoning, then our answer is pretty obvious. Maybe Billy Pilgrim did like Valencia, and as he time travelled a lot he said that he had seen everything and it was OK, then it might be that he doesn't mind being with her. I guess I have to finish the book to see what ends up with those two and see if Billy Pilgrim is a gold-digger!