Harmony (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ring Lardner
- First Published: 1915
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: The 1920's
- Setting: A train en route to Boston
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Waldron, Art Graham, Bill Cole, Lefty Parks, Ryan
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction, Sports fiction
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Singing or singers, Mysteries, Baseball
- Locales: Boston, MA
The Story
“Harmony” is both a baseball story and a mystery story. The setting is a train full of baseball players on their way east to a game in Boston; the narrator is a baseball writer; the mystery that the writer is trying to solve through talking to the manager and to various players is how the club recruited Waldron, the unknown player whose batting has put the team in first place.
Ring Lardner's structure is fairly complex, involving stories within stories. There are five people who contribute information about the mystery: the narrator, who begins and ends...
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