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In Ring Lardner’s “Haircut” the narrator’s attitude toward Jim Kendall and his pranks slowly reveals the backbiting nature of small-town life and of the narrator himself. The setting of the short story is a small town barbershop. Most people have heard the saying, “ when you live in a small town everyone knows your business.” This short story stands true to the saying. As one can find out from reading “Haircut” Whitey, the narrator, …showed first 75 words of 1325 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1325 total…able to believe everything Whitey says, but some things can be taken as reliable information. Word count: 1,351 Works Cited Blythe, Hal, Charlie Sweet. “Barber of Civility: Chief Conspirator of ‘Haircut’.” Studies in Short Fiction. (Fall 1986): 8 pars. Gale Group Blythe, Hal, Charlie Sweet. “Lardner’s ‘Haircut.” The Explicator. (Summer 1997): 9 pars. 23 January 2001. Infotrac. Lardner, Ring. “Haircut.” Literature and the Writing Process. Elizabeth McMahan, Susan X Day, and Robert Funk. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice, 1999. 97-103.