Slaughterhouse-Five Characters: Complete Analysis
Slaughterhouse-Five features complex characters representing different aspects of society, each embodying themes of the novel.
Billy Pilgrim is a passive optometrist who survived the Dresden firebombing as a POW. He becomes "unstuck in time," experiencing his whole life randomly. Tralfamadorians are aliens who abduct Billy and teach him their philosophy of time. Roland Weary is the cruel soldier who blames Billy for everything. Montana Wildhack is the actress abducted with Billy as his mate in the alien zoo. Vonnegut himself appears in the book, blurring fiction and memoir.