Big Blonde | Parker's Background and Influences
In the following essay, Kinney covers Parker’s
background and influences as a writer, before examining
her autobiographical character in ‘‘Big
Blonde,’’ Hazel Morse.
Dorothy Parker first attracted attention as a flippant and bittersweet poet and irreverent and acerbic satirist whose aim at the shallow and super- ficial social customs and social climbers often turned on a bon mot, a turn of phrase or perspective or a pun that was both striking and memorable. Closer attention to her work, however, shows a talented and dedicated artist whose persistent concern with spare, economical, pure language—even when cliched and colloquial, which she often used for effect— drew both on her classical education at Dana’s School in Morristown, New Jersey, a...
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