With whom do you think Vonnegut sympathizes in the story? Does he present Harrison as a hero, or is the story hero-less? Why?

Arguably the most poignant and recurring of Vonnegut's themes is individuality. A natural skeptic, the one thing Vonnegut implicitly praises time and again is the human capacity for individuality. He sympathizes with freedom and a place for natural selection.

However, he usually explores this theme by writing about situations where it is suppressed. Often, this suppression is mandated by the government; this theme is linked to that of government control. For instance, in "Harrison Bergeron," handicaps are used to equalize all people, so that less talented people will not be threatened or hurt by those who exceed them. In "EPICAC," the computer cannot function in a world that denies him from realizing his dreams. Harrison is clearly a hero-figure in a world that has exchanged freedom for mediocrity.