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Woody Allen Use Of Satire In The Kugelmass Episode

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Woody Allen use of satire is amazing in the short story “The Kugelmass Episode”. The very first paragraph foreshadows the direction this story will take, in regards to the writing style the author is trying to use. The fact that, “Kugelmass, a professor of humanities at City College…” is divorced with “two dull sons”, remarried, constantly putting down his current wife, and wants to have an affair, is extremely ironic given this fact. Kugelmass is an extremely desperate man trying to find true love and the perfect life partner. Not only does he try to convince his therapist that an affair is the right answer to his problems, that he hires a magician to send him into a novel in search of his true love. At first all goes well, he is happy as

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