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Plot summary. A husband sees a unicorn in the family garden and tells his wife about it. She ridicules him, telling him "the unicorn is a mythical beast" and calls him a "booby". When he persists, she threatens to send him to the "booby hatch" (the mental institution). He persists, and she summons the authorities.
In the short story, “A Unicorn in the Garden”, there are two main characters (three if you count the unicorn). The husband is first presented as mild and unassuming. Perhaps he comes across...
Apr 14, 2020 · In the first place this story is a fable which leads to a particular moral lesson at the end and one of its characters is a mythical legendary creature – a unicorn. There are all the characteristics of a fable:
Jul 17, 2021 · The Unicorn in the Garden by James Thurber is one of the most famous of his humorous modern fables. The story is a piece of prose writing that is belletristic in style, and its main aim is to...
The Unicorn in the Garden James Thurber. Once upon a sunny morning, a man who sat in a breakfast nook looked up from his scrambled eggs to see a white unicorn with a gold horn quietly cropping the roses in the garden.
Once upon a sunny morning a man who sat in a breakfast nook looked up from his scrambled eggs to see a white unicorn with a golden horn quietly cropping the roses in the garden. The man went up to the bedroom where his wife was still asleep and woke her. "There's a unicorn in the garden," he said. "Eating roses."
The Unicorn in the Garden. "I'm absolutely certain you're going to need a strait-jacket." "The unicorn is a mythical beast." "The Unicorn In The Garden" is a 1953 animated short directed by William T. Hurtz, produced by UPA and released through Columbia Pictures.
