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A Telephone Call Dorothy Parker Analysis

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A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker was born in 1893 at her parents’ summer home in New Jersey. Unfortunately, her childhood was very rough. Her mother and her step-mother died when Parker was still a child. She attended a Catholic grammar school, but ended her formal education by the time she was fourteen years of age. In her late teenage years another catastrophe hit, her uncle was on the notorious Titanic ship that sunk and he did not make it. Parker’s series of unfortunate events did not finish, her father passed away a year later. Parker sold her first poem to Vanity Fair and her first collection of poetry “Enough Rope” was published in 1926 and became a best-seller. She later worker for Vogue when she was twenty-two years old. She wrote poems for newspapers and magazines while she worked for Vogue, however she joined Vanity Fair to work as a drama critic later on. The same year she became a drama critic, she married a stockbroker which lasted about ten years (Poets.org). Her marriage, however, was quite turbulent and rocky. As an adult, Parker suffered severe depression and alcoholism. These issues led her to several suicide attempts that she thankfully survived. After her failed first marriage, she married an actor-writer in 1934. This marriage lasted for thirteen years before both sides decided to divorce, but they remarried three years later. As if Parker had enough tragedies in her life, her husband died of an overdose and Parker died at the ripe

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