Cat’s Cradle: Chapter 112 Summary & Analysis

Continuing the story, Angela says she assumed Dr. Hoenikker was just sleeping in his chair, but was dead. While she decorated the Christmas tree, Newt and Frank came in with the dog. Frank wiped some water of the floor with a rag, and threw it in the pan, which contained ice-nine. It turned into something like a “finely-woven gold mesh.” Frank held down the pan nine for Newt to see, thinking it was cake frosting.  Newt likens the ice-nine to his “mother’s reticule.” As he did so, the dog licked the rag and “froze stiff.” Newt went to tell his father, and found that “his father was stiff, too.”