Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Cat’s Cradle, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Science and Morality
Religion
Governance, Politics, and Nationhood
Absurdity and Meaninglessness
Summary
Analysis
Now at the lab—fully titled “The Research Laboratory of the General Forge and Foundry company”—Dr. Breed explains that seven hundred people work there (one hundred being researchers). They meet Miss Pefko, a “vacantly pretty” secretary of one of the researchers. She expresses the view that scientists “think too much.”
The research company is most likely modeled on General Electric, where Vonnegut himself once worked.
Themes
