![]() He introduces Eliot's distant cousin Fred as an ironic foil, depicting him as a life insurance salesman who guilts his male clients into "providing" for their wives ("brides") by buying life insurance and then when the men die receives his own "God bless you, Mr. Vonnegut caustically and amusingly details how American fortunes are made, how tabloid publications and deodorant advertising influence us, and how rich people tend to think poor people should be hard working and thankful. Rosewater" from the likes of the "ugly, boring, and stupid" spinster Diana Moon Glampers, it does not sit well with his free-enterprise loving, pubic-hair hating, die-hard republican Senator father, separates him from his loving but more human wife Sylvia, wins him nicknames like "The Nut," "The Saint," and "John the Baptist" from the workers at the law firm handling the Rosewater fortune, and earns him a weaselly sniper of a foe in the young lawyer Norman Mushari, who "slaveringly" thinks it will be easy to prove Eliot is insane and thus gain control of the Rosewater fortune by transferring it to a distant branch of the family living in Pisquontuit, Rhode Island. Although his ability to love "the little people," no matter how useless, criminal, or cracked, evokes a "God bless you, Mr. How can we help you?" and giving emotional and/or financial comfort to anyone on the other end of the line. Eliot has been using his position as president of the Rosewater Foundation to help everyone who needs help in his small hometown of Rosewater, Indiana, answering the phone 24 hours a day, "Rosewater Foundation. ![]() Focusing on American wealth and poverty and winners and losers, Vonnegut introduces us to middle-aged Eliot Rosewater, heir to the massive Rosewater fortune. "A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees." So begins Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s comical and moving autopsy of America, God Bless You, Mr. I can understand why some people don't like his work, but if you do you owe it to yourself to listen to this well produced thoughtful version. This book, though dated in some respects is timeless in others. He wrote some of the best books in the American literary tradition. Its almost impossible to review Vonnegut, who is my view is the most over looked and under rated American novelist ever. The everyday contains magical qualities that can never be overlooked, being kind to people is always a good investment. She was the average person who struggles to deal with life, the fact that Rosewater took time for her sums up the treatise of the novel. The woman who called Rosewater up every day was my favorite for some reason. Who was the most memorable character of God Bless You, Mr. The images of him living day to day in squalor but being so happy and helping others was well done. Which character – as performed by Eric Michael Summerer – was your favorite? You may not like his response, but you must admit that it solidifies his narrative. But I would say when Rosewater comes to a moment of clarity at the end of the novel it really pulls the story together in a profound way. Vonnegut has so many classic situations in his stories, that not only make you laugh but cry at the same time so its tough. What was one of the most memorable moments of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater in three words, what would they be? When people are good, selfless, and caring in a world like the one we all live in, they must be stupid or a little nuts. In some ways, in its heart, it reminds me of a simplified, satirized version of Dostoevsky's 'the Idiot'. ![]() ![]() This obviously is a form of insanity that either needs to be exploited (by lawyers) or protected (by family). The problem is Eliot Rosewater (the protagonist) ends up not caring much about money and being infinitely charitable and kind. Vonnegut's novel (subtitled 'Pearls before Swine') is about the Rosewater family and how they invest their efforts into a foundation as a means of keeping the government from taxing their money. Rosewater' happens to be a fairly straight-forward novel about money and charity and kindness and sanity. It appears that Kurt Vonnegut independently arrived at the same conclusion. There's only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you've got to be kind." I've only got two big rules with my two babies. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. ![]() It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. ![]()
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