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Billy is the main character of Slaughterhouse-Five, but he's not exactly the hero of the book. Or...
The narrator is—sorry to spoil it for you—pretty much Kurt Vonnegut. (Not that that's...
If you can read this dude's name without snickering, you're way ahead of us. Kilgore. Trout. This...
The what-now? Oh, we're glad you asked. These guys are aliens... who look like toilet...
Edgar Derby is the unfortunate high school teacher and slightly older-than-average soldier who...
Paul Lazzaro is the fake name of a real guy the narrator mentions in the first chapter, who...
Roland Weary is an unpleasant little jerkface who finds Billy wandering around behind enemy lines...
Valencia is Billy's extremely large and extremely good-natured wife. She never thought anyone...
Barbara is Billy's daughter. In 1968, when Billy writes his letters about Tralfamadore to the...
Robert is Billy's son. He is a wild kid in high school, but then he joins the Marines and...
We don't get to see much of Billy's father... but we see enough not to like him all that much. We...
Billy's mother is sort of like his wife, Valencia—Freud would have a field day. She is...
Howard W. Campbell, Jr., like Bertram Copeland Rumfoord, actually appeared in a previous Vonnegut...
Bertram Copeland Rumfoord—who originally appears in another of Vonnegut's books, The Sirens...
Bernard V. O'Hare is the narrator's war buddy who accompanies him on his trip back to the...
Mary O'Hare is the wife of the narrator's war buddy, Bernard V. O'Hare. She is initially furious...
The second person who appears in the book's dedication after Mary O'Hare is Gerhard Müller,...
The narrator's father only appears twice in the novel, but each time he seems to be fairly...
The narrator's wife is pretty darn minor as a character, but never let it be said that we here at...
Montana Wildhack is a hot 20-year-old porn star/actress whom the Tralfamadorians pair Billy with...
Eliot Rosewater is a captain in World War II. He winds up in the same veteran's hospital Billy...
Wild Bob is an American colonel and prisoner along with Billy at the Luxembourg/German border. As...
The Englishmen are the first group of POWs the Americans meet when they are shipped from...
The British colonel is the head of the Englishmen in the POW compound Billy stops at before...
Lionel Merble is Valencia Pilgrim's father and Billy's father-in-law. He is an optometrist who...
Nanny is the narrator's daughter. It's on a trip with her to the New York World's Fair in 1964...
Nancy is a very minor character indeed, since she only appears in the fifth section of the first...
Paul Lazzaro tries to steal a pack of cigarettes from under the pillow of an Englishman, who...
This guy is the head of the POW camp where Billy Pilgrim meets the English officers. The German...
Werner is a 16-year-old German charged with guarding Billy and Edgar Derby when they first arrive...
Maggie White is the wife of an optometrist and a guest at Billy's anniversary party, to which he...
Lily Rumfoord is, along with Maggie White, is a hot-but-dumb woman who attaches herself to a...
The Maori are a group of native people from New Zealand. When Billy is assigned to dig up bodies...
There are a bunch of dogs in this novel. There is Sandy, the narrator's dog; Spot, a (sadly...
Bertram Copeland Rumfoord's nephew, whom Billy Pilgrim happens to see from the window of his...
Lance Rumfoord's wife.
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