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A 5 page analysis of two short stories, John Updike's 'Wife-Wooing' and James Thurber's 'Unicorn in the Garden'. Both stories explore the effects of marriages in which the husband and the wives are living very much on two separate planes. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
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both stories there is a strong element of frustration on the part of husbands and wives who are seeing the world at a different level than their spouses. "Wife-Wooing" is
not a plotted story; it is more of a slice of life. Its framework is simple: the protagonist/narrator has gone to a diner and gotten take-out hamburgers and fries for
his wife and children; now they are at home, seated in front of the fire, eating. The narrator looks at his wife and realizes that even after seven years and
three small children, he still loves his wife and finds her sexually exciting, despite the fact she has put on a considerable amount of weight and might not even be
particularly attractive by contemporary standards of beauty. He observes, also, that there is something different about wooing a woman that one is married to, as opposed to courting a relative
stranger, and yet wives still have to be wooed to keep ones marriage alive: he notes that "wife" is "a knife of a word that for all its final bite
did not end the wooing. To my wonderment" (Updike, 110). The story follows our narrator as he goes to bed with his wife; although he does not verbalize this to
her, he would be interested in having sex, but she wants to read a book on Richard Nixon. As soon as she settles in, however, she is sound asleep. In
the morning her husband looks at her and does not find her sexually attractive at all; he still loves her, but the mood of the previous night is broken. He
goes to work and returns, with "a technicality it would take weeks to explain to you snag[ged] in my brain"; engrossed in the nagging problem he brought home from work,
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