Haircut By Ring Lardner Summary

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Dr. Sabrina Boyer
ENG 131 FON01
10/02/2016
Reliability Journal
In Haircut, the author Ring Lardner, placed his story in a small town where a very known barber, Whitey, is the best source of information on the town. He knows everyone very well, and he knows all the town gossip and all the news (146). The reader can see from the beginning of the story that this barber is not a reliable person, because he cannot be trusted in everything that he is telling to readers.. All the time, the barber is on the side of his friend Jim Kendall, trying to give to him all the benefits of the doubt. In the beginning of the story, barber said: “When he was alive, him and Hod Meyers used to keep this town in an uproar. I bet they was more laughin’ done here than any town, its size in America” (Lardner, 145). He believes that the sense of humor of the two friends is a quality. There is nothing wrong with a person to have a sense of humor, but sometimes Jim’s humor was sarcastic and inappropriate. A good example is that night when Jim, changing his voice as a woman, called the barber and asked him to come to her house and shave her husband who just passed …show more content…

In Haircut, the narrator, who is the town’s barber, seems to be an unintelligent and insensitive observer who introduces to us one of his friends, Jim, without making any comments on his behavior, except, indicating how amusing his friend was. The barber can’t be reliable. In the second story, The Cask of Amontillado, the narrator tells us a story about himself, story that happened 50 years ago. According with what Montresore said about himself, the reader can describe him as being obsessed with revenge, a person with no conscience, with no guilt for what he has done. This kind of person can’t be reliable,

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