Dorothy Parker's "Big Blonde" - An Analysis
...place is anonymous: friends are easily made and easily forgotten 3. characters - major characters: Hazel and Herbie, Ed is not so important, lots of changing people (male and female “friends”), they turn up and disappear > no real relationships; the only person who seems to care a little bit and stays longer is the maid Nettie - Hazel is introduced as young, attractive woman, not especially intelligent and individual but popular; always just following the social happenings; other characters appear occasionally - actions or changes: Hazel is always passive, confident with her situation, not asking why / she is always trying to be a “good sport” to be accepted and liked by men everybody is acting quite egoistic - special traits: Hazel is big, blonde, attractive, very feminine, not esp. intelligent but with a sense of what people want her to be like; she slips easily in a melancholic mood without visible reasons and she often cries; does not seem to have moral or religious standards she can cling to; always tries to be a good sport because she learned from youth on that this is the method to stay popular / the other characters in the story are all drinking more or less heavily (except of Nettie?); are all quite moody or even aggressive, not able or willing to change their lifes, all egoistic and living after a kind of “standard pattern” (esp. the women) - Hazel is the only really “deep portrayed” figure (e...