In all of Kurt Vonnegut’s short stories from "Welcome to the Monkey House," he displays different aspects of modernism in each story. Vonnegut is a modernist because he questions things like identity, morality, and family in his short stories and he uses them to criticize modern society. In an essay, Steven Kellman discusses how Vonnegut uses current social issues and modernistic ideology to mock and critique society;Other recurrent motifs bear on social issues: how to overcome individual loneliness in an indifferent urban society; the treatment of African Americans, Native Americans, and women in American history; the plight of the homeless; and the inadequacy of the small nuclear family to deal with the stresses of modern life. Vonnegut describes himself as being like a shaman who responds to and comments on the flux of daily life. This description makes him sound solemn, whereas he is, for many, a comic writer. Much of his humor is satire, mocking the foibles of human behavior and ridiculing aspects of modern society. He sees himself in the tradition of previous satirists such as Voltaire, Jonathan Swift, and Twain. (Kellman) In “Who Am I This Time?”, Vonnegut focuses on isolate individuals and he responds to their solitude in a robust world. In Vonnegut’s short story “D.P.”, he emphasizes the power of identifiers in that society and the treatment of displaced or different people. In All the Kings Horses by Vonnegut, he addresses and questions the morality and humanity of people’s actions. Vonnegut questions how we know what we know and different aspects of humanity in order to provide a new way of thinking. In Vonnegut’s “Who Am I This Time?”, the concepts of self-isolation and identity are what are being put into question and analyzed. In the story, the two main characters Harry and Helene both struggle with making connections with other people and choose to spend their time in solitude. When Harry was born he was left at the steps