Analysis of "The analysis of The Speculations of Jefferson Thorpe"

Canadian town in Ontario. In the novel there are many sketches and the sketch that will be analyzed is The Speculations of Jefferson Thorpe which is about the people of Mariposa’s consumption with the stock market, specifically with mining stocks. The mood of The Speculations of Jefferson Thorpe is chaos. It is portrayed through the use of the unreliable narrator and his naïve tendencies. Chaos is also shown through structure and imagery. The narrator in Leacock’s book is consCanadian town in Ontario. In the novel there are many sketches and the sketch that will be analyzed is The Speculations of Jefferson Thorpe which is about the people of Mariposa’s consumption with the stock market, specifically with mining stocks. The mood of The Speculations of Jefferson Thorpe is chaos. It is portrayed through the use of the unreliable narrator and his naïve tendencies. Chaos is also shown through structure and imagery. The narrator in Leacock’s book is consistently unreliable and naïve but especially in the sketch The Speculations of Jefferson Thorpe. The unreliability of the narrator adds to the chaos of the story in the way that he does not keep his thoughts or stories straight and leads the reader’s mind to jump all over the place creating chaos in the book and in the mind of the readeristently unreliable and naïve but especially in the sketch The Speculations of Jefferson Thorpe. The unreliability of the narrator adds to the chaos of the story in the way that he does not keep his thoughts or stories straight and leads the reader’s mind to jump all over the place creating chaos in the book and in the mind of the readerIn the beginning of the story the narrator describes the clients that visit Thorpe’s barber shop and he goes on to say “Then, as I think I said, Mr. Smith came in every morning” (Leacock 27). This makes the reader try to remember if he had in fact mentioned it before in the book which draws their attention away from the story trying to be told by the