Harrison Bergeron Characters

For someone bearing the same name as the title of the story, you'd think we'd see more of Harrison. As it is, we only see him for roughly a quarter of the story—and we're never even in the same r...

Poor Hazel Bergeron. Her son has been arrested by the government. Her husband is crippled by a government-implanted ear radio. And she has to watch some really bad ballet on television. We'd feel b...

If all of literature were one big mansion, and novels and characters comprised its residents and furniture, George Bergeron would be its welcome mat. He would let people walk all over him, and prob...

Diana Moon Glampers is the Handicapper General and a crack-shot, kind of like a female Dick Cheney. We're not sure how one gets to be Handicapper General. A vote? Nominated by Congress? Blowing aw...

There isn't much to say about the ballerina, since she's pretty flat. (Her character, we mean.) We know she's beautiful because the Handicapper General forces her to wear a mask. (Um, jealous much?...