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haircut
Title: haircut
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1370 | Pages: 5.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
haircut
In Ring Lardner’s “Haircut” the narrator’s attitude toward Jim Kendall and his pranks slowly reveals the backbiting nature of small-town life and of the narrator himself. The setting of the short story is a small town barbershop. Most people have heard the saying, “ when you live in a small town everyone knows your business.” This short story stands true to the saying.
As one can find out from reading “Haircut” Whitey, the narrator, tells the readers a whole lot of gossip about the …showed first 85 words of 1370 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 1370 total…inexorable chain of key events” (Blythe 4). A reader may not be able to believe everything Whitey says, but some things can be taken as reliable information.
Word count: 1,351
Works Cited
Blythe, Hal, Charlie Sweet. “Barber of Civility: Chief Conspirator of ‘Haircut’.” Studies in Short Fiction. (Fall 1986): 8 pars. Gale Group
Blythe, Hal, Charlie Sweet. “Lardner’s ‘Haircut.” The Explicator. (Summer 1997): 9 pars.
23 January 2001. Infotrac.
Lardner, Ring. “Haircut.” Literature and the Writing Process. Elizabeth McMahan, Susan X Day, and Robert Funk. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice, 1999. 97-103.
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