Harrison Bergeron's mother, Hazel Bergeron, is the definition of "normal" and the Handicapper General's model of forced equality. Everyone must be leveled and therefore oppressed according to their standards. Hazel's husband, George Bergeron, is no exception. “I think it would be really interesting to hear all the different sounds,” Hazel said, a little envious. “All the things they imagine”” (Vonnegut 910). George suffers from his own ridiculous mental disability. The fact that this incites jealousy in Hazel reaffirms the artificial equality that Vonnegut ridiculed. The author satirizes the oppression in American society through his depictions of misery and restraint manifested in his characters' trials. “The various times when George is interrupted in his thoughts and his internal monologue is cut off, we have in some way the cessation of the dialogue with himself. He cannot therefore have a unique personality, which itself implies his vision of the world” (Joodaki 71). Not being able to know yourself embodies