Whitey being the narrator knows only hear-say about some of the circumstances that had occurred around the town. Whitey was not

If we would have read this story narrated by Julie or Doc Stairs then we would have received a completely different picture of Jim Kendell. Instead of being called “a card” (102) and “a character” (102), he would have been more likely to be called cruel and dangerous. Surely either one of those characters would have not made light of Jim Kendell and all the hideous pranks he played on others. We may have also received yet another point of view if Paul Dickson had been telling the story from his side. We would have seen a story more about revenge from Paul who was continuously the subject of many of Jims pranks. As Whitey put it that Jim “..used to have all kinds of fun with Paul” (103). Paul also was trying to avenge the Jim’s assault on Julie.

here is a great deal of dramatic irony in this short story. Dramatic irony is the difference in what a character thinks or believes and what a reader knows to be true. In the case of the short story “Haircut”

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