CHAPTER SIX- FOIL CHARACTER

In Chapter six, we find a true foil character to Billy Pilgrim. That character would be Paul Lazzaro. In comparison with Billy, Lazzaro is clearly an opposite. His personality and values are much more intense and cruel than those of Billy. Paul speaks on and on of how he was going to have many people killed after the war and how revenge is his most prized possession. "Lazzaro was talking to himself about the people he was going to have killed after the war, and rackets he was going to work" (p 143). His thoughts and rants about who is going to kill and torture are really freakin people out. He goes on to say he would have ANYONE killed for one thousand dollars. This shows Lazzaro has no people who are close to him and he is almost proving his insanity. "If he had been a dog in a city, a policeman would have shot him and sent his head to a laboratory, to see if he had rabies. So it goes" (p 144). Paul Lazzaro locks himself up in this chapter as the role of Billy's foil character.