Distant Education College,Jilin University Background Knowledge 1.Kurt Vonnegut:born in 1922,in Indiana,U.S.A.,being a free-lance writer,his published work includes several novels,two plays,and over a hundred short stories.The story presented here appeared in the collection of short stories Welcome to the Monkey House (1968).Like many of his stories and novels,this story contains a humorous but serious commentary on life.Here,we see the roles a young man and a young woman play in a post World War II courtship in the United States. Return Background Knowledge Distant Education College, Jilin University 1. Kurt Vonnegut: born in 1922, in Indiana, U.S.A., being a free-lance writer, his published work includes several novels, two plays, and over a hundred short stories. The story presented here appeared in the collection of short stories Welcome to the Monkey House (1968). Like many of his stories and novels, this story contains a humorous but serious commentary on life. Here, we see the roles a young man and a young woman play in a post World War II courtship in the United States. Return