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Examining Vonnegut’s pursuit of developing narrative strategy, this paper reviews Vonnegut’s narrative quest and analyzes how the narrative strategy of taking advantage of alter ego effectively contributes to delivering his message and vision to his readers. As Vonnegut believed narrative strategy would help him effectively deliver his message to readers, he has always been concerned about his narrative quest, creating many characters who perform certain roles for him, particularly Kilgore Trout series. Trout, as an alter ego of Vonnegut, especially represents the author, accompanies him as a friend and leads the life of a writer in several of Vonnegut’s works. In addition to that, other repeated elements such as names and places also play roles in Vonnegut’s cosmos. Reviewing Vonnegut’s kaleidoscopic cosmos in which one should examine the mutations that shape his most striking literary techniques with his plots, anthropological issues and basic philosophical beliefs, we realize that analyzing his narrative strategy could be a good way to acknowledge the author’s main idea and messages, ultimately leading to a better understanding of his literary themes and apocalyptic vision. Vonnegut, with the narrative strategy in his mind, has effectively conveyed his messages and vision not only by having Trout, his alter ego, represent him but by distinguishing himself from his own alter ego.