Complete Collected Stories of V. S. Pritchett | Social Concerns
Although Pritchett's stories, much like their creator's early life, contain strong elements of social comedy, they also convey elements of social and class realism, as well as at least one significant instance of social protest. The realism may best be observed in "Sense of Humour" (from You Make Your Own Life, 1938), in which representatives of the middle-class business community work terribly hard to achieve and maintain prosperity, but do not always succeed. Pritchett introduces his reader to three characters who, eventually, reveal a series of complex and often interrelated...
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