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| Plot Summary of Remember Laughter - A Life of James Thurber |
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" A native of Ohio and graduate of Ohio State University, Thurber began as a code clerk in the Department of State. After working as a journalist in Paris, he began a life-long association with New Yorker magazine, whose pages were covered with Thurber's short stories and classic cartoons in which his misanthropy is often present as animals aping the behavior of humans and vice vera.
Always aware of the frailties and pratfalls of human beings as they faced life's predicaments, Thurber penned among others, "The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze" and "The Thurber Carnival." In 1940 he joined Eliot Nugent to write a drama of college life, "The Male Animal," which, along with other Thurber works, was made into a motion picture.
This funny man's last years were relentlessly bleak. Unable to cope with the loss of his sight, Thurber alienated many of his former colleagues with boring boasts of his past successes."
The Snide Gail Cooke, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
job/profession:
- writer
Job/profession/poverty story
Yes
Phys disability/mental struggle?
Yes
Struggle with
- physical disability/sickness
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- writer
Biography of famous person?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- American (!)
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other people
Setting
United States
Yes
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Century:
- 1930's-1950's
Style
Is book humorous?
Yes
If humorous, kind of humor
- Dry-cynical
- satire
Writer's slant towards subject:
- favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of nearly entire life
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 76%-100% of book
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