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Hecht the girl loses her innocence and metamorphoses into a shallow, self-centered floozy. There certainly is nothing comforting or romantic about a bartender speaking about a girl who once went out with Matthew Arnold and whom he had relations with. That surely couldn’t have been the standard conception of a young lady in the time of “Dover Beach” and although it was written much later it sure could not have been a popular thought when Mr. Hecht wrote “The Dover Bitch;” even today it is a very disturbing picture to think a woman could be motivated in a purely sexual manner, as this woman is referred to as being.

After Hecht points out in the parody how the original ignores the girl, one cannot help but go back to the original and feel pity for her. However, after rereading the original and going back to the parody, the pity completely fades and turns into pure disgust. Why? Because in society it is perfectly acceptable for a man to be thinking of his own needs but when the tides change and a women is cut and pasted into the man s position it is no longer within that which is the realm of acceptance. Considering both the introspection and romanticism of “Dover Beach,” it is fascinating to think that Mr. Hecht needed only to twist the word tones, alter the gender roles, and change the setting to completely deconstruct everything that Matthew Arnold had tried to say. Similarly with many parodies it is amazing how detrimental words can be in one context and how arbitrary they can be in another.



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