Epicac Analysis
Analysis of EPICAC
A short story written by Kurt Vonnegut
The short story EPICAC is written by Kurt Vonnegut. It is a fictional text about a very intelligent and expensive computer, EPICAC, built by Dr. Ormand Von Kleigstadt to solve complex worldly problems. The narrator works with EPICAC on the night shift along with another mathematician; Pat Kilgallen, whom the narrator wishes to marry, but because of his lack of romance and poetic skills she keeps turning him down. That is how one day the narrator “invents” a number-for-letters code explaining his real problem in life to EPICAC. EPICAC recognizes the code and answers to it. The narrator wins Pat’s hand in marriage because of the poetry EPICAC has written to her, but because the narrator has taken credit as the author of the poems a misunderstanding occurs: EPICAC believes that he is the one to marry Pat since it is his poetry that has won her over. He ends up short-circuiting himself because of the loss of his love and the fact that he can never become human.
The story EPICAC is told in retrospect by a first person narrator, which means that the short story is told from his point of view. The narrator is a mathematician and he works on EPICAC during the night shift on Wyandotte College where the computer is housed. He is without the tiniest sense of romance and therefore he uses EPICAC’s poetry to win the hand of his beloved colleague Pat Kilgallen.
The narrator might be lonely while he works every night and describes EPICAC as his best friend even though he is only a computer. He has no wife to come home to after work, but even so he is not good at showing his true feelings to Pat, which results in many attempts only trying to convince her of his love for her. His loneliness and despair leads to a growing friendship with EPICAC.
EPICAC is a huge computer about an acre in size and with a cost of $776,434,927.54. He weighs 7 tons and is composed of electronic tubes, wires and switches. With other words
A short story written by Kurt Vonnegut
The short story EPICAC is written by Kurt Vonnegut. It is a fictional text about a very intelligent and expensive computer, EPICAC, built by Dr. Ormand Von Kleigstadt to solve complex worldly problems. The narrator works with EPICAC on the night shift along with another mathematician; Pat Kilgallen, whom the narrator wishes to marry, but because of his lack of romance and poetic skills she keeps turning him down. That is how one day the narrator “invents” a number-for-letters code explaining his real problem in life to EPICAC. EPICAC recognizes the code and answers to it. The narrator wins Pat’s hand in marriage because of the poetry EPICAC has written to her, but because the narrator has taken credit as the author of the poems a misunderstanding occurs: EPICAC believes that he is the one to marry Pat since it is his poetry that has won her over. He ends up short-circuiting himself because of the loss of his love and the fact that he can never become human.
The story EPICAC is told in retrospect by a first person narrator, which means that the short story is told from his point of view. The narrator is a mathematician and he works on EPICAC during the night shift on Wyandotte College where the computer is housed. He is without the tiniest sense of romance and therefore he uses EPICAC’s poetry to win the hand of his beloved colleague Pat Kilgallen.
The narrator might be lonely while he works every night and describes EPICAC as his best friend even though he is only a computer. He has no wife to come home to after work, but even so he is not good at showing his true feelings to Pat, which results in many attempts only trying to convince her of his love for her. His loneliness and despair leads to a growing friendship with EPICAC.
EPICAC is a huge computer about an acre in size and with a cost of $776,434,927.54. He weighs 7 tons and is composed of electronic tubes, wires and switches. With other words