Irony in the Works of James Thurber
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In a play on his most famous story, ôThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty,ö American humorist James Thurber wrote an essay comparing his own common sense with the nonsense exhibited in the life and manners of Salvador Dali in ôThe Secret Life of James Thurber.ö In ôThe Secret Life of James Thurber,ö we see clearly demonstrated ThurberÆs penchant for humor and irony. Instead of cruel satire, however, we see that in ThurberÆs irony toward Dali he exhibits his own similarities to the eccentric surrealist artist. We see that Thurber begins his essay ôThe Secret Life of James Thurberö by comparinf the higher cost of DaliÆs autobiography to his own. He concludes he has spent too much time writing about what ôwent on in the house I lived in and not enough about what went on inside of meö (Thurber, p. 36). Likewise, Thurber spends a great deal of his essay about himself comparing the differences between DaliÆs and his own character. Thurber (p. 36) maintains that he would like to be ôthe first to admit tha
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