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This 3 page paper discusses the satire in Evelyn Waugh's book, The Loved One. Examples, quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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at the funeral home business. But, it is not any funeral home business, but instead, a funeral home, complete with mortuary, for dearly departed pets. In this ironic and witty
novel, Waugh treats the reader to great insights as regards death and those who ply their trade in the funeral home business. The storys protagonist is British immigrant, Dennis Barlow.
He has come to the United States a hopeful wannabe screenwriter, who, like most screenwriters and those pursuing a career in Hollywood, ends up working a day job. His day
job, of course, is not a run of the mill day job. Dennis works in an upscale pet mortuary. His fellow Brits, also immigrants hoping to make it big in
Hollywood, are disdainful of his choice of day jobs. As Englishmen there is a code and a reputation to uphold, his friend Ambrose informs him: We cant all be at
the top of the tree but we are all men of responsibility. You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs - except in England, of course. Thats understood out here,
thanks to the example weve set. There are jobs that an Englishman just doesnt take(Waugh 11). The satire in this work is
blatant from the first chapter. As Craycraft states, "the Swiftian allusions and turns in these novels, the kind of satire so ingeniously constructed it can be seen as nothing more
than frivolity or farce by the careless reader" are quintessential Waugh. For example, the animals are treated far better than most ordinary and non-Hollywood human remains are. The commercialism out
of death is a macabre way to make a living and the shallowness and consumerism, which eclipses humanity and emotion is exposed in the early chapters of this book.
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