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Unit 8 Courtship Through the Ages Wilma Hu The Little Man VS. The Thurber Wife The Little Man: domestic, frustrated, childlike, not sexual, suspicious, stubborn. The Thurber Wife: demanding, capable, manipulating, domineer, confident, unimaginative (All qualities opposite of the little man’s) James Thurber’s Marriage Thurber was married twice. In 1922, Thurber married Althea Adams. The marriage was troubled and ended in divorce in May 1935. Thurber remarried in June 1935 to Helen Wismer. His second marriage lasted until he died in 1961, at the age of 66. He suffered from alcoholism and depr