The story was being told in the third person and the narrator is an omniscient, and non-participant in the plot and setting. The setting is in the future, based in a living room, and the characters observing a live show on television. The

In the conclusion of the story, when death comes to both Harrison and the beautiful girl by the Handicapper General, that shows how control mixed with beliefs will always overcome. Then through the technology of this era, everybody ends up forgetting about the whole incident is forgotten.

Their are two forms of symbolism that is showing in the story. One of which is how the Constitution and the United States Handicapper General symbolizes equality. The other would be how society as a whole symbolizes equality.

Well, in the climax of the story, we learn that total equality may not be a good thing; especially, when Harrison Bergeron makes his big appearance, in the television studio. When Harrison takes off his handicaps in front of the country, it creates a giant change in mood

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