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The theme throughout the short story, “2BR02B” by Kurt Vonnegut, describes that ideal isn’t always the best option or what an individual really wants. “Back in the days when people aged visibly, his age would have been guessed at thirty-five or so... The mural he was working on depicted a very neat garden. Men and women in white, doctors and nurses, turned the soil, planted seedlings, sprayed bugs, spread fertilizer.
Men and women in purple uniforms pulled up weeds, cut down plants that were old and sickly, raked leaves, carried refuse to trash-burners” (Vonnegut 2). This helps illustrate how even though they had every solution and cure to diseases and other dangers to life, it caused the world to become more imperfect than it already was. The tranquility and peace that individuals still seek for present-day may not be what they really desire, and may even cause more issues.
“The law said that no newborn child could survive unless the parents of the child could find someone who would volunteer to die...’All I have to do is pick out which one of the triplets is going to live, then deliver my maternal grandfather to the Happy Hooligan, and come back here with a receipt’"
(Vonnegut 7-8). I’m order to control overpopulation on Earth, society had to change and in order to have children, you had to sacrifice someone for the baby’s life. Sometimes a perfect world isn’t always the best choice and don’t always seem as they can appear. This theme impacts the story by presenting the importance and reality of perfect, and how a preferable society and perfect world might not always be the best option or solution.

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‘Would you like to go back to the good old days, when the population of the Earth was twenty billion—about to become forty billion, then eighty billion, then one hundred and sixty billion...Without population control, human beings would now be packed on this surface of this old planet like drupelets on a blackberry! Think of it!’” (Vonnegut 8).

Dr. Hitz portrays main perspective and point of view I; life and humanity. He believes and describes the importance of sacrificing someone’s life and killing people is the only way to control population and have children. It’s a positive thing to lose your life for another and the significance of how life has no value.

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“If you don't like my kisses, honey, Here's what I will do: I'll go see a girl in purple, Kiss this sad world toodle-oo. If you don't want my lovin', Why should I take up all this space? I'll get off this old planet, Let some sweet baby have my place” (Vonnegut 3).

These lyrics throughout the orderly’s song represent the positive point of view and the amusing way society see’s
suicide and sacrifing yourself for another’s newborn. Humanity don’t see life as precious as it should it be. They see it as a lighthearted and entertaining topic to put in a song.

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"Automat," "Birdland," "Cannery," "Catbox," "De-louser," "Easy-go," "Good-by, Mother," "Happy Hooligan," "Kiss-me-quick," "Lucky Pierre," "Sheepdip," "Waring Blendor," "Weep-no-more" and "Why Worry... To be or not to be" was the telephone number of the municipal gas chambers of the Federal Bureau of Termination” (Vonnegut 4).

The symbolism within the nicknames of these gas chambers that were used to kill people, is that society and others to death and suicide as a joke and not as serious as it should be. They didn’t treat life as a valuable thing and instead something you could end with a single phone call. These government officials instead see these death traps as humorous, so they give them childish and funny nicknames.

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“The mural he was working on depicted a very neat garden. Men and women in white, doctors and nurses, turned the soil, planted seedlings, sprayed bugs, spread fertilizer. Men and women in purple uniforms pulled up weeds, cut down plants that were old and sickly, raked leaves, carried refuse to trash-burners. Never, never, never—not even in medieval Holland nor old Japan—had a garden been more formal, been better tended” (Vonnegut 2).

The symbolism in the faceless murals represents how people and lives are not important in society. Everyone is transposable and can be replaced. The society don’t see anyone as invaluable but as if they have no value.

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‘What's your idea of what life looks like?’ said the orderly. The painter gestured at a foul dropcloth. ‘There's a good picture of it,’ he said. ‘Frame that, and you'll have a picture a damn sight more honest than this one.’ ‘You're a gloomy old duck, aren't you?’ said the orderly’” (Vonnegut 4).

The symbolism with the drop cloth is how the painter compares the dirty and stained cloth to his world and society. He doesn’t see it as the clean, furnished, and perfect world people see it as around him. The drop cloth represents the opposition to society’s perspective of Earth and humanity. The painter thinks there should be more heap in society.