独角兽读后感.docx

The battle between husband and wife —— The unicorn in the garden The unicorn in the garden was written by James Thurber. The plot of this story is that a man told his wife he saw a unicorn in the garden, but the wife did not believe him at the first time. When the man told the wife he saw the unicorn in the garden at the second time, the wife called the police and the psychiatrist. At last, the wife was subdued and took away, the husband lived happier ever after. What the story impressing me is the battle between the husband and his wife. At the beginning of this story, I can realize the husband is a timid and henpecked person, as he just sat in a breakfast nook ”and his breakfast is cooked himself. But oppose to the wife, she is an impatient person and more like a hellcat. When the husband told her he saw an unicorn at the first time, she just ”opened one unfriendly eye ” , turned” her back on him and” coldly. At”the second time, her language are ironic, she name her husband “abooby and want him to put in the booby- hatch ”Why. I think she is a hellcat? Form the story, we can know when the police and wanted to seized the wife, “ theyhad a hard time ” , theword “subdued”, ” terrific wife was called as crazy as a jay bird ”All.these can show  ”theand the wife is hellcat. I think the afoul character decide the battle between them. Almost of their living, the husband is always tolerated but the wife is dissatisfied all the time. They should not live together peacefully. The conflict is irreconcilable and cumulative to the peak. At last, either of them wants to let the other out and the battle begin. Then I want to talk about the battle. In my opinion, the character also decides their fighting methods. As the husband is a timid and henpecked person, he more likely didn ’t fighting with the wife face to face, so he goes in a covert and roundabout way. The husband use the mythical beast “unicorn ”which is eating flowers in the garden to show his “abnormal”even rep