![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His father, as a young man, lived in Austria and was one of the few people who was actually friends with Adolf Hitler before his rise to power. At the ending of the book, it appears that Rudy, while he may not have fully come to terms with his actions, has at least come to live with them.Īnother key theme throughout the book is the relationship between Waltz and his parents and brother, Felix. The generic Midwestern town of Midland City, Ohio, in which Rudy was raised, is virtually destroyed by a neutron bomb, all the people in the town dying. At this point, he confronts an event that has been suggested and referred to throughout the novel. He tells the story of his life as a middle-aged expatriate hotel manager in Haiti, which symbolizes New York City, until the end, when the stream of time of the story catches up with him. ![]() Rudy was so traumatized and guilt-ridden by the incident that he lives life as an asexual "neuter," neither homosexual nor heterosexual. The novel's main character, Rudy Waltz, or "Deadeye Dick", commits accidental manslaughter as a child when he shoots a gun out of a window and fatally strikes a pregnant woman. Deadeye Dick is a novel by Kurt Vonnegut originally published in 1982. ![]()
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