Kurt Vonnegut a German short story writer and novelist, who endured a very hard and depressing young life, uses his background as motivation for many of his novels and short stories. “Deer in the Works” one of many short stories by Kurt Vonnnegut, was published in 1950. Vonnegut after his service in World War II had a job at G.E or General Electric. This where people theorize where he got inspiration for “Deer in the Works”. The setting in this book is the industrialized plant of Illium works, the second largest plant in America. G.E also a mega company, the connection can be made that Vonngeut’s setting of Illium Works is General Electric. He speaks of following your heart and how the world is becoming too industrialized in this story. “Deer
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This corporation is known as Illium Works. The main character is David Potter a twenty nine year old married man with twin boys and brand new twin girls. Potter who previously owned a small town weekly newspaper business for the past eight years decides he wants a new corporate job with all the benefits to support his family. The other main characters are Lou Flammer the publicity supervisor or his boss, because of Potter’s past of running a newspaper he is given a job as handling the press of the company. The last main character or object is the deer itself that gets trapped in the factory and is the whole purpose of the story. The minor characters include David’s family, the factory workers, and the civilians outside the factory. The main conflict in the story is David’s internal conflict with himself, whether to follow his heart or think about benefits from his new corporate job. This is shown when David’s wife tells him that the corporate lifestyle isn’t for him and he has always been his own employer. He then realizes near the end of the story that the workers at his new workplace are just cogs in the machine. The stories plot is that David’s new boss Lou Flammer wants David to cover the reports of a deer that has …show more content…
Vonnegut uses humor in this story when the main character David stumbles upon a company tavern while searching for the deer in the factory. David at this time in the story was very discouraged from getting lost in the factory and not knowing what to do. David then goes in the tavern and has a few drinks, he then does some actions for humor to the reader. This is to lighten the mood in the story and make it more cheerful. Vonnegut was known for this in his short stories often using humor to make things silly. The deer in the story serves as imagery as the thing that gets stuck between nature and man. The whole entire short story is situational irony for somebody like a character of David Potter to leave what he had in a job where he was his own person and on his own in nature. Knowing this and the fact of how people knew how Vonnegut felt about industrialization. The connection is made that the whole story is situational irony. He also uses a motif when the constant theme of machinery and being yourself is present throughout the
This corporation is known as Illium Works. The main character is David Potter a twenty nine year old married man with twin boys and brand new twin girls. Potter who previously owned a small town weekly newspaper business for the past eight years decides he wants a new corporate job with all the benefits to support his family. The other main characters are Lou Flammer the publicity supervisor or his boss, because of Potter’s past of running a newspaper he is given a job as handling the press of the company. The last main character or object is the deer itself that gets trapped in the factory and is the whole purpose of the story. The minor characters include David’s family, the factory workers, and the civilians outside the factory. The main conflict in the story is David’s internal conflict with himself, whether to follow his heart or think about benefits from his new corporate job. This is shown when David’s wife tells him that the corporate lifestyle isn’t for him and he has always been his own employer. He then realizes near the end of the story that the workers at his new workplace are just cogs in the machine. The stories plot is that David’s new boss Lou Flammer wants David to cover the reports of a deer that has …show more content…
Vonnegut uses humor in this story when the main character David stumbles upon a company tavern while searching for the deer in the factory. David at this time in the story was very discouraged from getting lost in the factory and not knowing what to do. David then goes in the tavern and has a few drinks, he then does some actions for humor to the reader. This is to lighten the mood in the story and make it more cheerful. Vonnegut was known for this in his short stories often using humor to make things silly. The deer in the story serves as imagery as the thing that gets stuck between nature and man. The whole entire short story is situational irony for somebody like a character of David Potter to leave what he had in a job where he was his own person and on his own in nature. Knowing this and the fact of how people knew how Vonnegut felt about industrialization. The connection is made that the whole story is situational irony. He also uses a motif when the constant theme of machinery and being yourself is present throughout the