Write an essays for all 3 topics.
#1 topics David Sedaris’ “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim” presents a number of stories dealing with Sedaris’s sexuality. Discuss how this element of Sedaris’s persona and experience
contributes to the humorous attitude in these stories generally and in two stories of your choice specifically.
#2 topic Discuss how shame or the “not-me” quality of specific experiences contributes to the humorous attitude in Louis C.K.’s standup comedy and in your choice of stories in either Sedaris’s
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim or Page’s The Discreet Pleasures of Rejection.
#3 topic Oscar Wilde, in the voice of Algemon, speaks about the need for uncertainty in romance. This uncertainty is achieved, according to Algernon, through the creation of triangulation, even if
one point in the triangle is fictional (Bunbury). Freud also focuses upon the triangle in the construction of humor. Using these ideas of triangulation as your starting point, explain how you think
romance is like humor.