Analysis Of The Letter 'Dear Warner Brothers' By Groucho Marx

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Making fun of someone or something is not always a bad thing, you can have fun with it as well. Groucho Marx, the writer of the nonfiction letter “Dear Warner Brothers”, is addressing the brothers Harry, Albert, Samuel, and Jack Warner. The purpose of this letter is to simulate the brothers, but in a funny way, just to get attention on Groucho Marx. In the letter, “Dear Warner Brothers”, Groucho Marx is using schemes of repetition by continuing to start each paragraph with another way he is heckling these brothers. First attitude, Groucho is accusing them of getting upset that fans are going to attempt to, “distinguish between Ingrid Bergman and Harpo” (Marx 59). Now Casablanca, Groucho is trying to prove to these brothers that they do not

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