Haircut Essay, Research Paper

In the story “Hiarcut” Jim Lardner is telling us a bit about himselt and his life. It is quoted by (Gale 158) that his own “ignorant, self-centered, materialistic way” was what made a quick success of his fiction. Lardner like his narrator in Hiarcut does feel superior to othe people in the viallage when he begins to detail thier lives to a stranger. Whitey felt he could pass judgement as uninformed as he is about the lives of other people in the community. Whitey was truly ignorant of the people he is discussing. “I said a minute ago that it was love at first sight on her part. I’m not only judgin’ by how she acted, but how she looked at him that first day in his office” (Larner 100). Whitey lets a stranger know about shaving a man in preparation for a burial and the cost he charges. He gives little detail about his feelings when a joke from Jim is played on him. Maxwell Geismar states that Lardner enjoys “displaying naivete’ ignorance, pointing out foibles, and exposing weakness of others” (Geismer 158) There is a great deal of self-centered attention on Whitey because he is the town spokesman; it was his place of establishment that centered on any community decisions. There is no place in this world for someone to appoint themselves spokesman for a community, repeatedly discuss details that are inaccurate, harmful in any way to tother person, and stand in judgment of others.

l. Lardner, Ring, “Haircut” Literature and the Writing Process 97-102, Day, Susan X., Funk, Robert, McMahan, Elizabeht, eds. 5th ed. Prentice Hall, New Jersey, l999.