What are some study notes for "Unready to Wear"?

"Unready to Wear" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is a short story that features a male narrator, Herb; his wife, Madge; and the inventor of being amphibious, Dr. Konigswasser. Herb describes his life as an "amphibious" being. To be "amphibious" in the new sense of the word means that Herb, and many others like him, can exist just as a thought or a soul for most of the time, and he can choose to inhabit a human body when he wants to. He explains, however, that most of the time being in a body is annoying because it has so many practical wants and there are so many things you need to do to maintain it. Bodies "are pure nuisances when you stop and think about them" (Vonnegut, 147). They make people tired, hungry, sick, irritable, and so on. Since bodies make people feel insecure, feeble, weak, or just plain annoyed, they also cause problems between people. At a big event, for example, when many "amphibians" are occupying bodies, "people couldn't help being out of sorts, stuck in sweltering, thirsty bodies for hours" (Vonnegut, 150).
Dr. Konigswasser first discovered how to become amphibious and wrote a book about it that changed the world. Herb and Madge decided to become "amphibious" because Madge was so sick that her body was going to die soon anyway. Everyone who is "amphibious" appears to love it, but humans who still occupy bodies are afraid of the "amphibians" and are at war with them. They end up trapping Madge and Herb with some booby-trapped bodies and put them on trial. They accuse them of deserting humanity and shirking their duties as humans. During the trial, Herb reaches the conclusion that because people are afraid of having their bodies be uncomfortable or captive or destroyed, fear is the only weapon humans have. Without fear of capture, pain, or destruction, they are powerless. Herb uses this fear to make the court afraid and escapes with Madge.
Some of the major themes of the story include the following:
The drudgery of human life and how much people have to go through to simply survive.
Fear as a motivator in human behavior.
Body image and its ties to self-esteem, value, and worth.
Body competition and the envy and conflict it creates between people.
The inability to let go of material worth and material possessions.
The debate between staying and fighting for what you believe in or abstaining from the struggle.
The value of the mind versus the body, action versus thought, and pure reason versus emotion.