Frame Story

Player Piano

by Kurt Vonnegut

Player Piano: Frame Story 1 key example

Frame Story
Explanation and Analysis—Play of the Sky-Man:

Chapter 21’s frame story is laughably on the nose. Amid the bland pomp and festivities of the Meadows retreat, the engineers humor themselves with a performance that seems no less vacuous:

The music stopped, machinery underground grumbled, and the quarter-spheres sank into the earth, revealing:

An old man, with a white beard reaching to his waist.