The protagonist is a main character who gets involved in the central conflict. In the short story 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut, Edward K. Wehling tends to be the protagonist who encounters the dilemma whether to take away other people’s lives such as some volunteers and his grandfather in order to save his newborn triplets. He wants both his grandfather and his children to be alive, but the law states that “no newborn child could survive unless the parents of the child could find someone who would volunteer to die” (4). Meanwhile, he faces another conflict with Dr. Benjamin Hitz, the antagonist who set up the first gas chamber. As Dr. Hitz provokes Wehling with a sarcastic tone, he takes out a revolver and kills Dr. Hitz. Pardonably, he finally
