Haircut: Irony The tone of the short story "Haircut" is dramatic irony, for the remarks of the first-person narrator, Whitey the small town barber, have the opposite effect from what he intends. Whitey does not understand the implications of his stories when he describes Jim as a joker or "a card" and unwittingly shows him to be a mean and despicable man. At the same time, Whitey reveals himself to be as unperceptive, unintelligent, insensitive and adolescent as Jim himself. Whitey's misplaced admiration for Jim Kendall, a cruel, crude practical joker, establishes Whitey as a naive narrator. Lardner's choice of a naive narrator creates the ironic contrast which is the basis of Lardner's satire. Most of Jim's so called "jokes" were downright vicious. He was upset one day at how his wife had treated him so decided to get even. He told her that he would take the f....

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