I Like Guys David Sedaris Analysis

David Sedaris is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor. He is mainly known for his short stories and the humor that he incorporates in them. Sedaris is “A life narrator who uses humorous short narrative to render his experience and perspective” (Cardell and Kuttainen 101). With Sedaris’s stories, he “Enters into a contemporary moment where the reception and production of life stories is both overwhelmingly popular and intensely complex” (Cardell and Kuttainen 101). Many of his writings such as Naked, Barrel Fever, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Holidays On Ice, Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls, and When You Are Engulfed In Flames show his humoristic background and they also reveal stories about his family. In one of Sedaris’s short
In the story, Sedaris tries to fit in with the other “normal” guys who pick on and make fun of the homosexuals so that no one knows that he is one himself. Sedaris’s homosexuality really comes out when he goes off to summer camp and finds himself fondling with another boy. In parts of the story, Sedaris uses humor to get his point across and in other parts he is more serious about situations. Sedaris ultimately uses more humor than anything else in his works. Being a comedian and humorist, it would be normal for Sedaris to use humor in his stories, but he also uses humor in his works for other things such as to give his readers somewhat of a break from the actual seriousness of the situations that he presents us with in the short story “I Like Guys”. Sedaris also uses humor in his short story to hide his sexual identity and cure his sexual preferences, in fear of not being accepted, and wanting to be normal, but he also uses humor to ultimately find himself and embrace his sexual identity, and from this we get the moral of the