Breakfast of Champions
Characters in Breakfast of Champions
10 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Dwayne Hoover
A wealthy Midland City Pontiac dealer whose untreated mental illness turns violent after he reads a Kilgore Trout novel as literal truth.
Kilgore Trout
An aging, almost unpublished science fiction writer invited to speak at the Midland City Arts Festival; a recurring figure across Vonnegut's novels.
Supporting characters
Kurt Vonnegut
The author writes himself into the novel as its Creator, watching his characters from the cocktail lounge behind mirrored sunglasses and finally setting them free. A deliberate metafictional device, not a miscredit.
Rabo Karabekian
Minimalist painter at the arts festival whose defence of his painting 'The Temptation of Saint Anthony' is the novel's turning point.
Francine Pefko
Dwayne Hoover's secretary and mistress, widowed by the Vietnam War.
Wayne Hoobler
A young Black parolee who waits in the dealership lot hoping Dwayne Hoover will give him a job.
Bunny Hoover
Dwayne's estranged son, a gay cocktail pianist at the Holiday Inn.
Harry LeSabre
Dwayne Hoover's sales manager, a closeted transvestite terrified of being found out.
Minor characters
Eliot Rosewater
Eccentric millionaire and Kilgore Trout's one devoted reader; carried over from 'God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater'.