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Dorothy Parker was an American satirist known for her wit. The short story "New York to Detroit" describes a phone call between a worried woman, Jean, in New York and her indifferent boyfriend, Jack, in Detroit.
In ‘Resumé’ Dorothy Parker explores themes of death/suicide as well as free choice and life. Each of these is tied up in the ability, or lack thereof, to end one’s life. The speaker has the ability, to an extent, to access each method she mentions but she chooses, for one reason or another, not to. In the end, staying alive is easier ...
"Resumé," Dorothy Parker's sardonic poem about suicide, first appeared in her 1926 collection Enough Rope. Running down a list of all the various ways a person might try to end their own life, the poem's speaker decides against them one by one: they're all too messy, too unpleasant, or too tedious.
Dorothy Parker’s poems, stories, and reviews, wisecracking and wary, were the toast of New York in the 1920’s and early 1930’s.
Raised on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Dorothy Parker built a career that was defined by her wit and her incisive commentary on contemporary America. She was born two months prematurely at her family’s summer home in West End, New Jersey.
Dorothy Parker. 1893–1967. Everett Collection Historical / Alamy Stock Photo. Raised on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Dorothy Parker built a career that was defined by her wit and her incisive commentary on contemporary America. She was born two months prematurely at her family’s summer home in West End, New Jersey.
21 Ιαν 2023 · Enough Rope: Poems by Dorothy Parker (1926) was her first published collection of verse. This collection includes the much-anthologized verses “Résumé” and “One Perfect Rose.” In addition to verse, Parker wrote short stories, essays, and reviews.
