1. Attending a Poetry Reading
She was indeed a quick-witted member of the Algonquin Table, which was a group of authors that met for lunch most everyday at the Algonquin Hotel. Her companions at this table were intellectuals such as Robert Benchley, Robert E. Sherwood, Marc Connelly, Alexander Woollcott, George S. Kaufman, and Edna Ferber. Brendan Gill has described the group as friends who spent their careers foolishly "Cracking jokes and singing each other's praises or waspishly stinging each other into tantrums on West 44th Street"(Davidson 796).
"Yes, Parker married a few times, divorced a few times, drank, and wrote her heart out"(Davidson 783). As explains the American literary journal, she did have problems with commitment and drinking but above all she is known and should be known for her vast literary talent. Her skilful and clever poetry and character makes us look into ourselves as her wit makes us laugh at ourselves. This is one of the many reasons that Parker was and is so popular. Sadly she passed away of a heart attack on June seventh, 1967 at the Hotel Volney in New York City at the "Ripe old age of seventy-three." She left behind a legacy.
Dorothy Parker was an author, critic and poet. Her subject matter expanded over a wide territory. The Issues that she tackled were the effects of economic and spiritual poverty of women, racial discrimination, stereotypes, the hollowness of love and fame, and the effects of war on marriage. She wrote of things like abortion and chemical and emotional addiction when such things were hardly whispered. Her most used subjects were of love and death, which were also her obsessions. There is a sort of irony about a writer whose main theme is death and the taking of it, when "She had indeed taken an unconscionably long time to leave a world of which she claimed such a low opinion of"(The portable XIV). Her career has been described as a writer that made a reputation early on of someone who "boasted of wooing death" and ironically clung so tenaciously to life.