There are no characters in this story and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters." - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969 The novels of Kurt Vonnegut, as well as the works of authors like Mailer, Salinger, and Arthur Miller, represent a period in American literature in which we find few heroes, lots of self-reflection, and passages like this one--in which the narrator appears and describes the writing process itself. This period is called the A)Postmodern. B)Realist. C)Romantic. D)Transcendentalist.