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Nadya asked this question about Slaughterhouse-Five:
What does "So it goes" mean? The narrator seems to say that every time someone dies, so I was wondering what it meant.
Sarah It is said a lot of other times too and some are quite mundane. It's used to cut off a tangent/subplot, sometimes even before getting into it. It's th…moreIt is said a lot of other times too and some are quite mundane. It's used to cut off a tangent/subplot, sometimes even before getting into it. It's there to simulate the experience of a live storytelling and the idea of a narrator telling a sliver of a much larger story. When people die I get the impression that he would like to epilogize for each of them, but he realises that it's rather irrelevant to the plot so he just says "so it goes" as if to say "that's a story for another time".(less)
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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