What would you do if someone told your boss that you smocked, drank, and
did drugs and someone got fired? This is what happened in the short
story “The Catbird Seat” by James Thurber. This short story was good because
once you start reading you can’t stop because you always want to know what is
happening next. If that happened to me I would be really mad because someone
is telling a lie.
To begin with this story is a tragic mode of literature. The world was
in conflict because Mr. Martin is trying to “rub out” pg 5 Mrs. Barrows.
There also is a rise to power in this short story because Mr. Martin never
messes up. The tragic flaw is that Mr. Martin wants to change his plans after
knowing exactly what he wanted to do. There is a tragic fall because Mrs.
Barrows tells the boss that Mr. Martin was smoking and doing drugs. She was
telling the truth. It ends with the death symbolism. In this story is Mrs.
Barrows get’s fired for tell the truth to the boss who was fooled by Mr.
Martin.
Another surprising thing about this tragedy is the purpose. The Purpose
is to teach a moral lesson. This story’s moral lesson is to know that people
lie and that you should not trust everyone. Just like in the story Mr. Martin
lied and people believed him than someone told the boss about his behavior
and Mrs. Barrows got fired because the boss said he wouldn’t ever smoke or
drink or do drugs. There also are characteristics in the story that show the
main character is in control because everything goes his way. Also this story
could happen in real life because a lot of people lie in the real world.
Equally important is that if this would have happened to me in real life
I would go up to that person that is telling a lie and say. “Why did you lie
that is the wrong thing to do!” The short story was a good one because it
tells you that this could happen in real life. You keep reading because want
to know what the characters where going to do next. This also followed the
tragic mode of literature.
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