Nazism Will Be Quarantined

In the opening of this chapter we meet a character who appears to have converted to Nazism and turned from the american way. He invites many of the other Americans to join his force called 'The Free American Corps.'Derby in a very prideful moment stands up and confronts this vermin of a man. He speaks of the American ideals and how with the Russians they will "crush the disease of Nazism, which wanted to infect the whole world"(164). This indirectly characterizes Edgar Derby as a person who has very strong patriotism for his country and is strongly against Nazism. Also he uses a metaphor to compare Nazism to disease that they will eradicate. Vonnegut is able to use references to attain many goals.