SOURCE: “Her Apprenticeship: Essays, Light Verse, Drama,” in Dorothy Parker, Revised, Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1998, pp. 66-72.
Here, Kinney provides a discussion concerning Parker's use of meter and verbal simplicity to better satirize her view of society.
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