Slapstick

In pages 90-274 of Slapstick, the middle and elderly life of Daffodil Swain is explained by Vonnegut.  Daffodil parts ways with his twin sister as she is forced to go to a mental facility, and Daffodil goes to college and medical school.  Daffodil becomes a doctor, although not a good one, and then he begins to realize the loneliness of his fellow Americans.  Daffodil decides to run for president, proposing that Americans get assigned middle names.  About 200 random people in all of the U.S.A. will be assigned the same middle name, making them a "family" of unrelated relatives.  Somewhere in the mix, Daffodil becomes dependent on an unnecessary medication that is used to treat people with turrets syndrome.  America soon falls apart when the Albanian Flu and the Green Death begin to take the lives of civilians.  Daffodil officially loses his presidential office when America becomes a territory of madness and insanity, with "kings" ruling over large parts of the land.  Daffodil goes to visit a women in Indiana who lets him use a device that lets people communicate with dead spirits.  Daffodil talks to his sister, who tells him that he should die immediately so that Daffodil and his sister can unite again.  After the conversation, Daffodil moves to New York, the island of Green Death, and the final resting place for Daffodil.