Unit-8-Courtship-Through-the-Ages汇总（必威体育精装版文档）.ppt

Unit8CourtshipThroughtheAgesWilmaHu

TheLittleManVS.TheThurberWifeTheLittleMan:domestic,frustrated,childlike,notsexual,suspicious,stubborn.TheThurberWife:demanding,capable,manipulating,domineer,confident,unimaginative(Allqualitiesoppositeofthelittleman’s)

JamesThurber’sMarriageThurberwasmarriedtwice.In1922,ThurbermarriedAltheaAdams.ThemarriagewastroubledandendedindivorceinMay1935.ThurberremarriedinJune1935toHelenWismer.Hissecondmarriagelasteduntilhediedin1961,attheageof66.Hesufferedfromalcoholismanddepression,butHelensdevotednursingenabledhimtomaintainhisliteraryproduction.Eventhoughthesecondmarriagewasmoresuccessful,but,surprisingly,thewomenoflaterstoriesareportrayedasmorethreatening.

Thurber’sChangingAttitudestowardWomen:

Misogyny,Envy,andAdmirationThurber’sowncommentsinaninterviewwithMaxEastmanrevealcontempttowardswomen: Americaisamatriarchy.Italwayshasbeen,italwayswillbe.TheAmericanWomanismytheme,andhowshedominatesthemale.ItbecameobvioustomewhenIwasachildthattheAmericanwomanwasincharge....Ithinkit’soneoftheweaknessesofAmerica....Themotherdominatestheson....Hesays:“Hey—Mom!CanIdothis—canIdothat?’Permissionfrom‘Mom’isthebigthing....Idon’tthinktherewillbeanyrevoltbytheAmericanman.IntheseriesIdid,“TheWarbetweenMenandWomen,’thewomansurrenderstotheman,butyou’llnoticeinthedrawingsthateachwomanhasabigrock...behindherback.Inotherwords,thewarisnotover. --ThurberinterviewedinTheNewRepublic,May16,1958. (Kinney532,ellipsesinoriginalquotation)(Unflatteringportrayalsofwomenwerenotpersonalrevenge,buthumorousdevices)

TextComprehensionPara.1Whichsentenceinthefirstparagraphcontainsthethesisofthisessay?Whatdoyouthinkofthisgeneralization?ParaphraseSurelyn