A Metaphoric Bubble #2

   The metaphor "air was trying to escape from the dead water" implies that people of this world today try to get out of difficult situations by thinking of happier times in their lives or by doing something else to get their mind off of the situation in Vonnegut's "the water had died. So it goes. Air was trying to escape from the dead water. Bubbles were grabbing onto the side of the glass, to weak to jump out."