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? James Thurber illustrates the male species' status with respect to, “ Courtship Through The Ages” with a humorous and melancholic tone. He emphasizes the lack of success males experience through courtship rituals and the constant rejection w ....

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... ideal of masculinity. Thurber's frustrations with women are evident right from the start. He displaces male insubordination to the blueprint of nature and it's “complicated musical comedy.” (Rosengarten and Flick, 340) It's interesting that he attributes nature as a female creator and thus justifying the relationship that “ none of the females of any species she created cared very much for the males.” (p 340) Thurber compares the similarities of courtship to the complicated works of Encyclopedia Brittanica. A book which is full of wonders and within lies mysteries of the unknown and unpredictable. In comparison to the Encycloped ...