How does Kurt Vonnegut use imagery in Hocus Pocus?

Vonnegut is very specifically an American writer. That is, he uses much local color in speech and often exaggerates characters to bring out their underlying stereotypical natures. Jason Wilder, the blowhard commentator, is a good example of how Vonnegut uses language to convey a character's inner state of cunning. Wilder is eloquent and articulate, but just as clearly, selfish and judgmental. He uses flowery speech and even insists on quoting a long, dreary Shakespeare soliloquy into the hearing record as his parting statement. Wilder's vanity and ego are shown by the writer to be narcissistic and destructive not by actions alone, but the language the author has Wilder utilize.