Josephine Surer
Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut is a story that truly stresses the importance of competition and diversity for a society to be innovative. The characters are all reduced to an intellectual and physical equality, which sounds ideal, but instead it creates a very stoic environment. Hence the overall tone of the story which is very monotone and dull. It is only during the main scene when Harrison Bergeron appears that the story is suddenly revived. The main difference in this scene is the outburst of in quality of the description, "They reeled, whirled, swiveled, flounced, capered, gamboled, and spun. They peeped like deer in the moon. The studio was thirty feet high, but each leap brought the dancers nearer to it."(768) After this, the story reverts back to the the two main characters, George and Hazel, and stresses the sorrow of their environment. George is unable to realize that his son was just killed and everything returns back to the quiet life they characters were leading.