Roland Weary is not a likeable character. In Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, Roland Weary has been through as little war as Billy Pilgrim, the main character, but his past is described in the book makes it clear that he did not have a healthy childhood. His father had an obsession with torture instruments. “Weary’s father once gave Weary’s mother a Spanish thumbscrew in working condition--for a kitchen paperweight.” (p. 45) During their short time together, Weary tells Billy all about the different torture instruments, in detail and with relish. Roland Weary spends his trip with Billy and the two scouts accompanying them spinning a story for when he returns home: a highly romanticized version where he was the leader, the hero, the one