Those Summer Girls I Never Met | Literary Qualities
Those Summer Girls I Never Met is told in first-person narration with mostly comic, fantastic, and melodramatic action. The comedy arises through situations and dialogue. Most are embarrassing situations that the participants only later see as humorous, such as Drew's getting caught nude in a jacuzzi intended for both sexes. The humor in the dialogue is mostly expressed through puns and verbal situations similar to malaprops—words used incorrectly. Most of the malaprops come through song titles. When Mr. Morthland, for example, tells Drew "Do nothing til you hear from me," and...
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