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‘Resumé’ by Parker humorously rejects suicide options for superficial reasons, ultimately suggesting life, despite pain, is easier.
Resumé. Dorothy Parker’s ‘Resumé’ explores themes of death and 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. She brings readers through seven different ways to take one’s own life (guns, razors, gas, and more).
7 Ιουν 2017 · 7 June 2017. By Hephzibah Anderson, Features correspondent. Getty Images. On the 50th anniversary of her death, Hephzibah Anderson looks beyond Dorothy Parker’s wisecracks to find another side...
Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
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.
9 Αυγ 1993 · When Alan died, in 1963, from an overdose of alcohol and barbiturates, Parker returned to New York, where she passed her last years in an alcoholic twilight. “Don’t feel badly when I die ...
3 Μαΐ 2019 · At Lit Hub, an excerpt from Mervyn Horder's introduction to The Best of Dorothy Parker (The Folio Society), in which Horder takes a look at the author's "restricted oeuvre," "ascribable to the egregious disorder of her life, to her efforts to overcome this disorder with the help of the Scotch bottle, and, perhaps, to the fact that her main ...
