Gooz Character Analysis

The main character in Kilgore Trout’s novel, This Year’s Masterpiece. The novel takes place on a planet named Bagnialto, where a government official spins a wheel of chance once a year to determine the cast value of art. Gooz, a poor cobbler, paints a picture of his cat, and the wheel determines that the painting is worth the equivalent of one billion dollars on Earth. Gooz and his painting represent the subjectivity of art and the arbitrary way that art is often assigned value and worth.