Kurt Vonnegut's Short Story Deer In The Works

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Kurt Vonnegut’s short story Deer in the Works seems like a weird story. As you read the story the all the events seem happy, then all of a sudden it’s a bunch of very confusing events. But the main theme that is persistent throughout the story is sadness. It is the summer time and a young man named David Potter, an owner of a small weekly newspaper, decides that he needs a more secure job because his family grew from four people to six due to his wife just having twin girls, on top of twin boys they already have. So he applies for a publicity writer/sales and advertising job at Ilium Works, due to his love of writing, which is the second largest industrial plant in America, despite his wife’s misgivings. So he goes to Ilium Works

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