How to Become a Character in Vonnegut’s World
Beth Schroeder On the Other Side of Madness
“He was a valet to a preacher, expected no promotions or medals,
bore no arms, and had a meek faith in a loving Jesus which most soldiers found putrid”
Vonnegut himself has confessed that he uses his writing as a psychotherapeutic vehicle to sort out his various mental idiosyncrasies,1
One of the most telling revelations about Vonnegut’s true philosophy is his dramaticand deliberate distinction between people2 and characters, particularly in his most widely recognized novel Slaughterhouse-Five, in which Billy Pilgrim’s failure to become a character directly illustrates Vonnegut’s philosophy about human nature and in so doing, directly refutes that Vonnegut is in any way a fatalist.
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