Literary Analysis English
Literary analysis: “The catbird seat”
This short story wrote by James Thurber is about a working class guy who has worksed at a firm called F & S for twenty two years. The story takes place on New York on mid 1900's, this setting is characterized by the chauvinism of that time, women where repressed. Erwing Martin has been recognized as an efficient and concentrated worker, who never smoke neither drinks. Suddenly, Mr. Fitweiler, one of the presidents of the firm decided to employ a new worker, this time a women named Mrs. Ulgine Barrows. She had a very important position on the company, she was Mr. Fitweiler's right hand and had the task of reorganizing the whole firm of the company. This task made her the antagonist of the story, because of her there were some people fired and other that decided to quit because of her pressure and reorganizing job . Because of this Mr. Martin sees her as a threat to all the years of dedication he had invested on his work, this event is what determines the course of Mr. Martin as a character in the story. This makes him think of a very good and crafty plan of getting rid of her in his job environment. He first thought of killing her, but when his opportunity was in front of him, which in fact that scene built suspense in the story, he thought it was a crazy idea. When he arrived to her house for the kill, he did not expect such treatment by her. She served him a drink even though he was not a drinker. He lied to her telling nonsense and insulting things about their boss. She was astonished and told him to leave her house but he maintained calmed and relaxed and at the door he made a strange gesture. He placed his index finger on her mouth telling her that their conversation would never go out of the walls of the house they where in. He got out of her house and went to his home. Next day he arrived his work at 8:30 as usual, fifteen minutes later Mrs.Barrow swept into his office like a six-year old and shouted “Im
This short story wrote by James Thurber is about a working class guy who has worksed at a firm called F & S for twenty two years. The story takes place on New York on mid 1900's, this setting is characterized by the chauvinism of that time, women where repressed. Erwing Martin has been recognized as an efficient and concentrated worker, who never smoke neither drinks. Suddenly, Mr. Fitweiler, one of the presidents of the firm decided to employ a new worker, this time a women named Mrs. Ulgine Barrows. She had a very important position on the company, she was Mr. Fitweiler's right hand and had the task of reorganizing the whole firm of the company. This task made her the antagonist of the story, because of her there were some people fired and other that decided to quit because of her pressure and reorganizing job . Because of this Mr. Martin sees her as a threat to all the years of dedication he had invested on his work, this event is what determines the course of Mr. Martin as a character in the story. This makes him think of a very good and crafty plan of getting rid of her in his job environment. He first thought of killing her, but when his opportunity was in front of him, which in fact that scene built suspense in the story, he thought it was a crazy idea. When he arrived to her house for the kill, he did not expect such treatment by her. She served him a drink even though he was not a drinker. He lied to her telling nonsense and insulting things about their boss. She was astonished and told him to leave her house but he maintained calmed and relaxed and at the door he made a strange gesture. He placed his index finger on her mouth telling her that their conversation would never go out of the walls of the house they where in. He got out of her house and went to his home. Next day he arrived his work at 8:30 as usual, fifteen minutes later Mrs.Barrow swept into his office like a six-year old and shouted “Im