How does the main character struggle?

All of the characters in "Harrison Bergeron" struggle to a certain degree. The people in society who have anything special to brag of (beauty, brains, strength, etc.) are forced by the government, which is monitoring them at all times, to handicap themselves for the sake of equality. Harrison, the son of George and Hazel Bergeron, has it the worst: he is 14 years old, 7 feet tall, and extremely intelligent. He is also handsome and...

All of the characters in "Harrison Bergeron" struggle to a certain degree. The people in society who have anything special to brag of (beauty, brains, strength, etc.) are forced by the government, which is monitoring them at all times, to handicap themselves for the sake of equality. Harrison, the son of George and Hazel Bergeron, has it the worst: he is 14 years old, 7 feet tall, and extremely intelligent. He is also handsome and talented and has the strength of 20 lumberjacks.

It appears that Harrison is the most advanced specimen of the human race, and so he is forced to wear the most handicaps out of anyone. He constantly has noises shooting into his ears to confuse his brain and make him "stupid," he is chained and shackled to prevent him from using his strength, and he is confined to his room for fear that he will overthrow the government. Harrison is, in fact, its greatest fear. It can be argued that he struggles the most out of anyone, because he is the most repressed person in all of society; he has never been allowed to be himself. 

In the story, he attempts to escape his shackles to have his moment of glory when he can revel in all that he is. Finally, he escapes and makes his way to the concert hall where the television is broadcasting some ballerinas for people to watch. One of the dancers is so beautiful and graceful that she is also heavily handicapped. Together, they put on the most glorious show the people have ever seen, and Harrison attempts to overthrow the government. Harrison finishes by crowning himself emperor in the process, because he knows that he is the greatest person to have ever lived. Alas, he is killed by the government and everything goes back to the way it was, with his own parents forgetting the spectacle that they have just witnessed, the murder of their only son.