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The reader's role in Ring Lardner's rhetoric.

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From: Studies in Short Fiction
Date: 19940322
Author:Cowlishaw, Brian T.

Ring Lardner's short stories are effective satires and ironies because the implied author is able to establish a relationship with the reader. The implied author is the authorial voice that readers assume holds a certain point of view towards the characters and actions of the story. Lardner's two modes of narration and the ways they establish this relationship between reader and implied author are discussed as they occur in 'Zone of Quiet' and 'Haircut.'

Readers' responses to Ring Lardner's short stories are remarkably homogeneous. Who, other than the "confirmed pursuer of ironies" ...

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