Maupassant and Thurber's Use of Irony and Conflict to Explore and View Marital Relationships

In the beginning of the 20th century, a slow and powerful movement was born from positive emphasis on American living and critical censorship against modern society, to positive reevaluation and affirmation of the material. Several writers have received positive reviews in their early days and their careers. Many negative comments were received. However among the outstanding influential writers, the development of many individuals corresponds to a general pattern. The nature of the final confirmation varies greatly.

At the superficial level, many settings seem to be trivial, or simply background of action. This is the case of James Thurber's "The Catbird Seat" and Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace". As a result of careful investigation, people have discovered that the setting of these stories is really important. Thurber's World War II setting explains the dynamics of the office of the central character company. The name of the street in Paris has a special meaning in the story of Morpassan. In many cases, the creator may propose a more universal appeal to the core idea if the scene is common and used primarily as the background of the story. "Lottery" has such a general background. However, if there is a potential iconic level in the story, this setting may have very special meaning. This meaning can be seen in stories such as "man who shoot freely" and Faulkner's "rose for Emily".

Guy de Maupassant is criticizing women's pride and vanity. In many parts of the story, he showed irony of the situation of Mrs. Lois. From the moment she got married, in her prosperous year, Mrs. Loisel waited for what she did not have and she dreamed that her life should be different. After 10 years of hard work and extreme poverty, she noticed that pride caused her mistake. At that time these years can not be regained.

"I am not an artist," he told the interviewer in 1939. "I am a diligent writer who writes graffiti to relax." As a cartoonist, the server's heritage is also stained with his disgusting marriage. His manga man almost always looks weak, and women often see Mitty's arrogant wife's change. In 1935, the server married the second wife Helen Whistmar, marriage lasted until his death, but his drinking and depression sometimes eroded his family life. Anxious about his blindness, he constantly angered women, after insulting White's wife, Catherine, a powerful editor of New York, he alienated White.

While looking at his youth slowly, my life and hardships will inevitably mention the greatest tragedy of the life of the server. When Thur was six years old, his brother William mistakenly shot an arrow in Thurber's left eye. The server's father left and the mother consulted a general practitioner who does not recommend removal of the injured eye. At the same time, due to sympathetic ophthalmia, the right eye of the server begins to swell. This is a non-invasive eye because the body's immune response may react to the injured eye. Experts eventually dismissed Thurber's injured eye, but his right eye was permanently weakened, he became blind in 1937.