Character Development

  In Harrison Bergeron, the author, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., does a great job of developing his characters, using them to symbolize politcal problems. George Bergeron, the father,is has above average intelligence, but accepts his society is the way it is, and believes it is better the way it was before. While the character is not depicted in ridiculous amounts of detail beyond his subservient reaction to the government's way of control, it still gets part of the message through. Hazel, George's wife is entirely average, and cannot keep a single continuous thought in her head. Even though she grieves for her son for a moment, she can't remember a moment later. Diana Moon Glampers the  Handicapper General, shows what I believe was a purposeful display of skill shooting down the ballerina and Harrison with a shotgun-not exactly easy. I think Kurt was trying to say the government was unhandicapped and powerful.
 I feel that this observation matters because he used the characters behavior to express an idea possibly a critique of a government he lived under, or that existed in his time