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Analysis of Characters Shaping in Ring Lardner’s Haircut
【Abstract】Haircut is one of Ring Lardner’s famous fiction. In this fiction, Lardner successfully shapes different, vivid characters, which leaves deep impression to the readers. This paper tends to employ the flat or round, static and developing characters in order to explore the techniques Lardner employed to describe characters.
【Key words】Haircut;characters shaping; flat characters; round characters
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Brief Introduction of the Story
Haircut was published in 1925 by Ring Lardner.In the story the listener indicates all of the readers who read the story. When the newcomer came to Whitey’s shop, he told the story hubristically and the listener was silent. The protagonist was Jim Kendall. He was one of the frequent callers in Whitey’s shop.Besides, Jim had three habits:tricks, drinks, and promiscuity. His tricks almost involve everyone surrounding him. After Jim’s accidental death, Whitey missed him because he thought that Jim was certainly a card. The whole story is irony and sarcastic.
2. CHARACTERS SHAPING IN HAIRCUT
In Ring Lardner’s haircut, he writes many characters: the barber Whitey, Jim Kendall, Doc Stair, Julie Gregg, and half-wit Paul Dickson and Hod, etc.
2.1 The Barber Whitey
The barber Whitey is the narrator of the story and a story participant.In this story, the narrator Whitey is a a flat or stock character.He is a ignorant, unreliable, low-educated and vulgar person, which can be proved by many evidences.He thought Jim was a comical person, a character and a card.However, through reading, readers can find that Jim’s wife wanted to divorce him only they wasn’t no chance to get alimony and she didn’t have no way to take care of herself and the kids, but Whitey though that Jim was kind of rough, but a good fella at heart.Take Julie Gregg as an example, she’s been away to school and Chicago and New York and different places and they ain’t no subject s
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