Dorothy Parker - Big Blonde

Hazel’s story reveals the decline of a “good sport.” (Parker I 1) She becomes accustomed to trading sex for security, a characteristic exchange it appears to her, within her society. "Men liked her, and she took it for granted that the likin

g of many men was a desirable thing. Popularity seemed to her to be worth all the work that had to be put into its achievement." (I 1) Discarded by a series of increasingly inferior men as age cuts into her beauty, she resorts to alcohol, and eventually attempts a suicide, which rather cruelly doesn't come off. In spite of the dullness and vulgarity of Hazel's situation, Dorothy Parker breathes enough life to separate her from the blur of women in the story who are "stout, broad of shoulder and abundantly breasted, with faces thickly clothed in soft, high-colored flesh." (II 2) Hazel's final solution for peace is suicide.

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