The Inevitability Of Death In Jane Smiley's So It Go

The expression "So it goes" takes after each notice of death in the novel, adjusting every one of them, whether they are common, accidental, or purposeful, and whether they happen on an enormous scale or on an exceptionally individual one. The expression mirrors a sort of solace in the Tralfamadorian thought that despite the fact that a man might be dead in a specific minute, he or she is alive in the various snippets of his or her life, which exist together and can be gone to again and again through time travel. In the meantime, however, the reiteration of the expression keeps a count of the combined power of death all through the novel, in this manner indicating out the terrible inevitability of death. The quote on (page #): pg. 96: “On the candles and the soap were of German origin. They had a ghostly, opalescent similarity. The British had no way of knowing it, but the candles and the soap were made from the fat of rendered Jews and Gypsies and fairies and communists, and other enemies of the State. So it goes.” This is an example where Billy talks about someone who

6 : “ The rabid little american I call Paul Lazzaro in this book had about a quart of diamonds and emeralds and rubies and so on. He had taken these from dead people in the cellars of Dresden. So it goes. “ This Quote connects back to the Tralfamadorian tradition of “ so it goes “ because it talks about how Paul Lazzaro comes to get all those jewels in his possession by stealing them from dead jewels and it just suddenly ends the story with “ so it goes . Quote (page #): Pg. 27 : “ When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the person is in bad condition in that particular moment,.............. I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is ‘so it goes.’” This quote simply explains the reasoning behind the saying “ so it goes “ it gives us an understanding why Billy says it when he does and why he uses it as much as he