Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater follows Eliot Rosewater, a man born into immeasurable wealth who makes it his life's goal to use his money to help improve the lives of the poor. Using crude and straight-to-the-point phrases such as "Goddamn it, you've got to be kind," and "Don't kill yourself," he distributes small amounts of money to those in need. Eventually, Eliot's father, the elderly senator Lister Rosewater, becomes infuriated and obsessed with...
Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater follows Eliot Rosewater, a man born into immeasurable wealth who makes it his life's goal to use his money to help improve the lives of the poor. Using crude and straight-to-the-point phrases such as "Goddamn it, you've got to be kind," and "Don't kill yourself," he distributes small amounts of money to those in need. Eventually, Eliot's father, the elderly senator Lister Rosewater, becomes infuriated and obsessed with his son's insistence on helping those whom he (Lister) considers to be inferior.
Meanwhile, a sneaky and untrustworthy lawyer named Norman Mushari hatches a plot to take advantage of Eliot's apparent insanity in order to pass the fortune on to the next Rosewater heir, while, of course, collecting half of the package for himself.
When an onslaught of women claim to have mothered Eliot's illegitimate children, and in a stroke of insanity, or charity, Eliot accepts the claim and provides each child with the full rights to his inheritance. The novel ends questioning whether or not Eliot's repeated charity even helps his clients in the slightest.
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