44 pages • 1 hour read
Augusten BurroughsDry
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Essay Topics
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Why does Burroughs claim that advertising is the ideal career for him? How has his troubled childhood prepared him for the demands of the advertising industry?
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How does denial manifest in Burroughs’s behavior both at work and in his personal life?
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Burroughs’s stock-in-trade is humor. What purposes does it serve in the narrative? Give some examples and explain what deeper emotions that humor might be masking.
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