Ambiguity is defined as something that deliberately suggests two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work; an event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way, but done so in a way that contributes to the meaning of the work. An example of this in chapter nine is when Vonnegut is describing the locket on Montana Wildhack's neck. He says that it contained "...a picture of her alcoholic mother-a grainy thing, soot and chalk. It could have been anybody."
I believe this has two meanings. The first meaning is that the picture is in a decrepit state, and the details of her mother have faded away. The second meaning is that because the picture was unclear, anyone could have been that mother. No one is impervious to a swift downfall, and anyone could end up as a photograph with a tragic memory attached.
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