![]() The principal character, a young Englishman named Dennis Barlow, is a poet-cum-screenwriter who leaves his job at the studio, which he hates for its bureaucracy and lack of imagination. In the book, almost everyone is striving to gain or maintain a place in society that they seem to believe is important because other people might envy them for it. Waugh portrays the Los Angeles denizens as part of a culture that fosters and encourages the selfish pursuit of petty goals. ![]() Most of the characters either work in one of the funeral homes or are employed by a Hollywood film studio. The action is set principally in two funeral parlors, one for humans and the other for pets. Evelyn Waugh's novel, The Loved One, is a pitiless satire on the shallowness and pretensions of British expatriates and Americans in post-World War II Los Angeles. ![]()
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