“

The Unicorn in the Garden”

James Thurber

Setting

背景

Time

: A sunny morning

Place

: Garden

Characters

人物

Husband

character. : The husband is romantic and mild to his wife at first, but in the end he becomes cold to her when she gest taken away. He is a round

Wife

: The wife is realistic and cold. She is a flat character.

Conflict

衝突

External Conflict

:

man vs. women

The wife doesn’t believe her husband.

The husband lets the police take his wife away.

Symbol

象徵

The unicorn

: love, precious thing

Garden

: paradise

Flower

: beauty, love,

Irony

反諷

Situational irony

:

surface (expectation)

: The wife calls the police to take her husband away

reality (result)

: It is the wife who is herself taken away in the end of the story

Themes

主題 The struggles between husband and wife in modern sexual relationship or marriage.