James Thurber and Thomas Wolfe

The Moderns really began after World War one or the Great War. This changed the American voice in fiction. Idealism turned into cynicism and America lost its innocence. The Stock Market Crash caused the Great Depression and that caused a more depressing kind of writing. This style calls for bold experimentation, and a sweeping rejection of all traditional themes. American soon became known as a beautiful, bountiful, and rewarding land. The independent person that relies only on himself was shown to have the ultimate triumph. The new writers were skeptical of the New England Puritan

James Thurber is classified as a humorist. His style of writing was amazing. Though he did not use much wit in his writings he could still clearly be seen as a humorist. He has a surprisingly wide range of writing. Thurber writes from an interior view of human experience. Many times thurbers interior view is not understood by the readers’ exterior view. He writes of generalized people: husbands, lonely men, servant women, etc. His writing is more of a basic form of comedy than many other humorists. Many of Thurber’s children’s books are somewhat classic fairy tales. Though they do not always have the normal story lines (woman in need of saving and a hero that saves her) as the classics they still contain the same elements: princess, prince, etc. This can be shown in his great children’s book Many Moons. This is a story of a princess who wants the moon and how she gets it. This is also shown in his novel Thirteen Clocks. In this novel an evil duke captures a beautiful Princess, and her beloved prince has to find a thousand jewels and unfreeze thirteen clocks. If he fails the prince will be devoured by the invisible Todal. With help from his magical protector and an old woman the prince will try to save the princess and leave the duke to the Todal. There is no other Author that can match thurbers great imagination. In his stories the plots can be so unbelievable, but Thurber can somehow make the reader believe that it is the actual truth. He had a unique style of writing that could not be classified as humorists and in other categories, but his writing was not always the normal type of stories that a reader would expect from these categories. Though forgotten by many people he still has a huge number of fans out there that wish he were still alive to give them more stories.

tradition and the courtesy, which had been central to the literary. The center of American Literature had finally shifted from New England. Writers were now from the South, Midwest, and the West. There was a breakdown in traditional morality and values. This change could be an explanation for the non-traditional writings of Thurber and Wolfe. Even with these great changes Thurber and Wolfe still have their own style they are unlike any other authors of their time.

Wolfe was from the south where at the time racism was a very large issue while Thurber was born in the north where industry and business was booming. Wolfe began his life in a small town and Thurber’s life began in a small city. Thurber who was exceptionally smart was no match for Wolfe who began college at age fifteen. Thurber stayed in his home state to attend college while Wolfe began his college in his home state but inevitably went to Harvard to finish his studies. Both began their writing careers began at early ages. Wolfe started out as an editor for his school newspaper and Thurber began his writing career as a journalist for several newspapers. Wolfe mostly started his writing career on his own writing his own plays and having them produced by the Carolina Playmakers. Thurberâ€

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