SOURCE: "Lardner's Discourses of Power," in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. XXII, No. 3, Summer, 1985, pp. 331-37.
In the following essay, Gilead investigates abusive language in Lardner's stories, noting its effects on both the narrator and reader.
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