Walter Thurber Controversy

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In the year of 1894, a child named James Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio. Thurber was raised by his father named Charlie and his mother considered to be an ”overbearing wife”(Riley) by his father. When he was a child he was in an accident with a bow and arrow being struck in the eye causing him to start losing eyesight in his one eye by his brother. In some years later Thurber joined the army and served in world war I. After Thurber came back home from the war he went to Ohio State where he got his degree and meet his first wife. In the 1930s James moved to New York got a job as an editor partnered with E.B. White. Thurber started losing vision in his other eye in 1939. Thurber was “Devastated”(Riley) from losing sight at first. Thurber …show more content…

One example of Irony is in real life he fails to live a "fulfilling external life"(Wilson 185/186), but what he does to counteract that creates dreams and he is very successful in them.Another example of the irony is how he fails to get items his wife's ask for, but how alert he is "alert"(Wilson 186) in his dreams. Now the irony is not the only literary device that shows the theme another literary device is imagery.Imagery shows the theme by allowing the readers to picture his successes and how it looks when he fails. One example is he was the commander of the ship where he was giving commands and it worked. This dream showed an image of a brave commander on a ship successfully getting through a storm. This dream was halted by his failure to drive safely on the road concerning his wife and having to take control over him to stay safe.Another dream that showed him being a successful dream was when he was a doctor he was admired and listened to Until he almost hit a buick. This showed that he had yet failed again to operate a vehicle. Now, these themes are good to show single incidents to show success and failure, but one big one is the plot.The plot shows the repetitiveness of his dream and the sequence. the dream sequence shows him being very successful and it all ending in his failure to operate items such as a vehicle when he starts to go

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