Based from the story, and compared against the rest of the characters, the
             antagonist in Ring Lardner's "Haircut" was Jim Kendall. Although, somehow,
             Jim was the main character the story speaks about, he was the foe of those
             whom he did wrong. To count, the narrator of the story told quite a number
             of people whom Jim had done unpleasant things for his enjoyment.
             Jim Kendall was the funny man in Haircut. His pleasure was making jokes
             that had never missed to entertain people. However, in most of his fun,
             Jim created entertainment at the expense of others -- funs committed at
             either embarrassing or doing mischief to people. Aside from being
             mischievous, one thing that makes him the antagonist of the story is Jim
             not being a good husband especially when time came that he was fired from
             his job. Even before so, his wife had already wanted to divorce Jim, but
             cannot do it because of their children.
             Jim had a lot of mischief against the other characters of the story. To
             list a few are the following. In his travels, Jim sends postal cards to
             people he do not know. Such cards contain naughty messages that can cause
             troubles. Another was his fondness of calling cuckoo to people who were
             off their head. A victim to this was Paul, whom Jim always makes fun of.
             Jim was also fond of imitating voices that he used to fool others including
             the narrator of the story. Julie, a woman in town whom Jim likes, but
             doesn't like Jim, also became his victim when he was trying to get even to
             All the misconducts the narrator told about Jim paid a serious price at the
             end of the story. Jim was accidentally shot by Paul in a duck-shooting.
             Ironically, in the end, Jim became the silly one for letting a brain-
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