nothing is known about the narrator. All that the readers know is that he is in love with Pat. Readers are not even introduced to the narrator by name throughout the whole story. The narrator uses the poems as his own and gives them to Pat. He “steals” Epicac’s poetry to us for his own personal benefit.Epicac is describes a lot more in the story as being more of a concrete character than the narrator. From the beginning of the story he is described very well letting the reader see how extravagant of a creation Epicac really is. He is so much more concrete than the author that it seems that Epicac is supposed to be thought of as a human character. Epicac only does good for the narrator, he wishes for love just as the narrator did and just how humans do, and have the heart to have be a human being.

How can a piece of machinery have a heart? Well, Epicac is so enamored with Pat that he beings to believe that he loves Pat too. But, she can’t be in love with him because he is a machine. At the end of the story Epicac “commits suicide” (04) knowing that he can never be loved. He loves Pat so much that he leaves the narrator five hundred poems for the narrator to give to Pat. Epicac knew that the narrator steal his poetry, but forgave and gave the narrator the going away present of poetry. The narrator says, ” I loved and won-EPICAC loved and lost, but he bore no grudge. I shall always remember him as a sportsman and a gentlemen. Before he departed he did all he could to make our marriage (he and Pat) a happy one. De mortuis nil nisi bonum- say nothing but good of the dead” (04-05). In the final words of Epicac the narrator even recognizes Epicac as a human being. He speaks of Epicac as if he were a kindly human that had just passed away. Epicac is a human with a “heart”, but he just lacks protoplasm(0). The narrator had the protoplasm, but just kind of lacked the heart that he is supposed to have. So just who is the human now? Vonnegut intentions were to make the readers believe that Epicac was a human. Once again, computers are not meant to be humans, but if