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Short summary of chapter confession of humorist

Answer 1

he occasion on which the author get reputation as a humorist was  the fiftieth birthday of the senior partner , of the store where narrator     worked. The employees in the store bought a silver inhstand for the senior      partner crowded into his private office to present it.Narrator as a          spokesman made a little speech with full of funny twists and funs.It make    hit Author's reputation of a humorist dates from that  morning.
Author believed possessed considerable wit .This was the gift he     cultivated. The nature of it was kindly and genial , not running to sarcasm or        offending others.
Author becamd a famous humorist , saved thousand dollars and lived in comfort .But for all these he had to sacrifice his friends , amusements, enjoyment of life and happiness of his family. acquaintances .
Narrator became a vampire to his acquaintances.Annious , haggard, greedy,he stored among them like a veritable hilljoy.A bright saying fall from their lips and I was after it like a hound.He dared not trust my memory , but turning aside guiltely and meanly, he would make a note of it in my ever -present memorandum book for my future use.
Author's fame as a humorist made him loose his friends, amusements enjoyments of lives.He had to sacrifice the happiness of his family but under the influence of peter Haffel bower he began to improve in spirits but his work began to suffer .He received rejections from the editors.So when the Peter gave him  the proposal to join his profitable business, he readily accepted it.

Answer 2

Short summary of chapter Confession of Humourist:  

The essay Confessions of Humourist is written by the famous American author O Henry. In the essay the author talks about his experiences of being the writer of a column in a newspaper. Throughout his career, the author has used humour as his element to express his ideas.

But these were not taken seriously in the beginning and was understood by the people. He kept on writing and he considers that he became successful in his intentions when people started to term his work as piece of humour instead of measles. He writes about his struggles that he gas to undergo to establish himself as an author with a unique taste in literature and day to day life.

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