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Husband

GentleHe gave a lily to the unicorn ForeshadowingǮWeǯll see about thatǯ and finally he sent his wife to the booby hatch

Wife

Queen ControlShe totally ignored her husband when her husband wake her up. FierceShe was very mean to her husband as she said her husband is a booby. She wanted to sent her husband to the booby hatch UnfriendlyShe approuch her husband rudely Ridiculous and stupidShe called the psychiatrist and the police and asked them to bring the strait-jacket as her husband saw a unicorn in the garden.

Unicorn

Mythical BeastMaybe a fantasy come from the husband mind.

Psychiatrist

Short thinkerAs he rushing catch the wife even he did not know the true story

Police

LoyalHe just follow the instructions given by the psychiatrist

0 [ A husband sees a unicorn in the family garden and tells his wife

about it. She ridicules him, telling him the unicorn is "a mythical beast" and calls him a "booby". When he persists, she threatens to send him to the "booby hatch" (the mental institution). "We'll see about that", he says matter-of-factly, going back outside, as she summons the authorities. However, after she tells them what her husband saw, they force § into a straitjacket. Upon his return (having taken a nap in the garden after the unicorn has disappeared), they ask the husband if he told his wife he had seen a unicorn. He tells them that he has not, because "The unicorn is a mythical beast." Thus they take the wife away instead, and "the husband lived happily ever after".

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˜ [ [ The man and the woman stand for two different opinions. On

the one hand we have the man who is willing to accept the unicorn and the fantasy world, on the other hand there is the woman who represents prejudice against anything fantastic. She believes in institutions (police and psychiatrist). This can be seen as the author`s moral intention. This story is also a story of a bad marriage. This can be proved by looking at their conversation. Although they speak about the same subject they do not understand each other. The husband sees and feeds the unicorn and she thinks it is a "mythical beast". The man refers to the unicorn as "he" and she says "it". He wants to share his delight and emotions but she refuses. When she wants to send him to a mental hospital he turns the case by quoting her in an ironical way.

˜ [ [ That women always have to be friendly to their

husbands, else they will tell them a crazy story, so they will end up in a booby-hatch. [ The second is that if a man wants his wife to be taken away, he has to be a good liar, because in the story the man knows the truth. Therefore he must have lied, either to his wife or to the police when they asked him. [ Drugs are bad things. People will see crazy things, but they will not them. [ w

˜ [ ! " " [ Maybe the man in the story is a little bit crazy because of his story with the unicorn in the garden. It is not normal to tell everyone about your appearances of this kind. On the other hand he could be perfidious, because he wants to make his wife crazy with his absurd story. Perhaps he can imagine what will happen if the woman some day believes his stories and tells them somebody else. Possibly he tells her such kind of stories every day so that she goes nutty. But the woman is very perfidious, too, because she is only waiting for a chance to send the man to a booby hatch.

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Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 189 . When he was seven, Thurber was blinded in his left eye by an arrow while playing with his brother William. This accident led to lifelong trouble with his eyesight and resulted in total blindness for the ten years prior to his death. Thurber attended Ohio State University and worked in undergraduate journalism while a student there, eventually becoming editor of the ˜ the campus newspaper. He left the university in 1918 without a degree, in part due to his vision problem. Thurber worked as a code clerk in the State Department for the next two years, serving in both Washington and Paris. Following this, he returned to Columbus and became a reporter on the § Thurber went on to work with the § in and the in New York. In 1927, he ed the and stayed there for eight years, eventually becoming a freelance writer. In 1922 Thurber married Althea Adams; they divorced in 1935. He married Helen Wismer a month later, a marriage which lasted until his death. Between the late 1920s and early 19 0s, Thurber's writing achieved international fame for its eccentric humor. When the author suffered a succession of illnesses and lost his sight permanently, his writing took on a more serious tone, even one of despair. Thurber once said that his blindness was a punishment upon him for writing Dzmeanly and mockingly of mankind.dz However, he did continue to write, first with the help of magnifying glasses, then by using crayon on yellow paper. After his blindness became total, he dictated his pieces to secretaries. He died in 1961.

All this is written James Thurber [ My Life and hard Times [ The middle age man with the Flying Trapeze [ The Last Flower. A Parable in Pictures [ My world Ȃand welcome to it [ The White Deer [ The Wonderful O [ Alarms and Diversions

w The husband invited the whole troops of unicorn to live in his garden and he became famous and being the Unicorn Horn seller. One day, when the man talking to his neighbour One of the unicorn over heard their conversation that stated that DzThe silly bloody Unicorn give me moneydz The Unicorns went crazy enough and stabbed the man across his stomach and the man died on the spot tragically. The moral value isǥ. Do not take advantage over someoneǮs specialties.