Summary Of God Bless You Mr Rosewater

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The ending Kurt Vonnegut’s book, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, took me very much by surprise. I had imagined it to end in someone’s death, Mushari taking them down directly, or something else more along those lines. The book ended with Eliot splitting the Rosewater fortune up to fifty-seven different children that are not even his children. He told them to have their names be Rosewater and, “to be fruitful and multiply,” (Page 275). Those children’s parents had all claimed that Eliot was the father to their children but only because Mushari had started that lie. Although this ending was mostly unexpected, it does make a lot of sense. Eliot’s character is portrayed as a mostly unselfish person who also does not really seem like he enjoyed having