Alter Ego

Reading the book two characters really jumped at me: Kilgore Trout, and Eliot Rosewater. Rosewater was veteran of war, just like Billy. He is also in the mental ward for veterans and suffer of the same thing, aftereffects of war. They are both looking for an escape of this problem. The main thing that Rosewater did was introduce Trout to Billy. In the other hand we have Trout, he is a science-fiction author. 

Trout other than being a random science-fiction author, he is Billy's favorite author. I kept reading about Kilgore Trout in Slaughter House-Five. The way thatVonnegut described him gave me the impression that Trout was Vonnegut's alter ego. I asked myself a question, as some of the persons that read the book might have doubt the same thing. Why Vonnegut and NOT Billy's alter ego?

In my past blog, Is that Vonnegut?, I stated my opinion by saying that Vonnegut is trying to express himself by Billy. Reading Chapter Five my opinion in way changed. 

It changed because right now I believe that Vonnegut is trying to express himself by Trout. Why? Even though Vonnegut and Billy have similarities, Trout and Vonnegut have more specific ones. For example: the three of them lived in Illium, but Billy was born there, instead Trout and Vonnegut lived there for a period of time. Now I believe that Billy is not Vonnegut outer ego, but Trout is.