Mr. Erwin Martin In James Thurber's The Catbird Seat

In Metonymy, or the Husband’s Revenge by Rachel de Queiroz the purpose of including Metonymies meaning is to explain why the husband kills the messenger and not the sergeant. The story involves a crime, that took place in an inland, Brazilian City. The wife found her spent husband a burden and a bore. So she found herself a sergeant, the sergeant and her flirted all the time, they were true lovers. The women started to change which gave her husband suspicions. The husband’s heart became soaked with jealousy and hatred. He grabbed a revolver and bullets and waited for the mail to bring another letter. When he got there the husband shoots him. The police Chief can’t understand why and who he killed. So the husband keeps trying to explain it,

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson arrive at the hotel in London where Sir Henry is staying. They find Sir Henry very mad because another boot was missing. He said the first boot that had been taken away had been put back, and a second old black boot was now gone. None of the hotel staff knew anything about this. They also discussed who the person following Sir Henry could be. The only person they know at Baskerville Hall who has a black beard is the butler, Mr. Barrymore. To figure out if Mr. Barrymore is at home, they decide to send him a telegram and to deliver it in person. If he is not there, the telegram would be returned to the sender. Sherlock Holmes then says that Sir Henry needs a bodyguard at Baskerville Hall. He said that Mortimer is too busy to be able to do that, and he says that he is too busy with commitments so tells everyone that Dr. Watson will go with Sir Henry to Baskerville Hall. As they try and figure out more clues about the case, they get word that Mr. Barrymore is in Devonshire because he was there to receive the telegram. Also, the cab driver who Sherlock Holmes had sent for earlier comes to their door. He tells Homes that the bearded man who he had driven around claimed to be a detective. He had told them to say nothing to anyone. Strangest of all, the man had claimed to be named “Mr. Sherlock Holmes”. Holmes is very surprised and also amused.

Peggy begins her story about her first day at Walton Works #2. Peggy was promoted to General Manager of Walton Works #2 by Old Man Morris. He gave her a tight time frame to turn this company around from being the worst preforming plant. It there was no improvement in numbers, Old Man Morris would be force to shut down the plant, saving him millions of dollars. On her first day, Peggy met with all of her staff, and one particular manager, a Division Manager began to belittle the Operation manager named Andy Longclaw. He was basically discriminating against Andy for being Native American Indian. From then, she knew that this Division Manger pretty much sealed his fate with her and would not last six months with the company. After meeting with her staff and reviewing the plants performance. Peggy knew that she

“The parlor was dead and Mildred kept peering in at it with a blank expression as Montag paced the floor and came back and squatted down and read a page as many as ten times, aloud.” Only reason she was paying him attention was because the parlor walls were dead. “I’m not angry,” Montag said, surprised- Mildred shrieked with laughter in the hall.”

When the family moves into an old building, the narrator goes to the cellar trying to kill Pluto, who is haunting him, with an axe. Sadly when his wife interferes, she is the one killed. The narrator “withdrew [his] arm from her grasp and buried the axe [into] her brain” (Poe 23). Feeling no guilt, the man believes he has successfully hid his wife’s dead body in the cellar and did not get caught by the cops. The interest thing is that he is not bothered about murdering his wife nor Pluto. He is glad that he was able to manage to run off the cat and to sleep soundly without being

Mrs. Barrows quickly got under the skin of Mr. Martin as she began her new job as

Mr. Holling is going to figure out this mystery. Mr. Holling has his mind set on finding the rats, and he won’t stop until he does. Every time he hears a strange noise up in the ceiling, he wonders if it is Sycorax and Caliban. If he smells something like rotten garbage, he wonders if it is the dead rats. Finding the rats is always on his

Tiffany Holden has been working as an administrative professional at Smith Pharmaceuticals for one year. Her supervisor has a fiend from another company, Jeffrey Madden, who visits the office three or four times a month Tiffany has a pleasant relationship with hom, and they usually chat for a few minutes each time he comes to the office. Mr. Madden is married, and he frequently talks about his wife their three

Fitweiler’s superiority is shown over Mrs. Barrows is when he requests very little information from Mr. Martin about the accusations against himself. Mrs. Barrows stormed into Mr. Fitweiler’s office the morning after Mr. Martin arrived at Mrs. Barrows’ home. Mrs. Barrows warned Mr. Fitweiler of the things Mr. Martin had threatened the night before, but it was of no avail because Mr. Fitweiler had to protect himself, not Mrs. Barrows. Mr. Fitweiler was incredibly worried that the affair would become known; he had to do whatever possible to keep this from being revealed. “The head of the filing department, neat, quiet, attentive, stood in front of the old man’s desk. Mr. Fitweiler was pale and nervous.” (5). This quote shows how concerned Mr. Fitweiler truly was about anyone discovering his relationship with Mrs. Barrows. When Mr. Fitweiler brings Mr. Martin in his office to inform him on what Mrs. Barrows had just accused him of, Mr. Fitweiler asks for very little information and a minuscule amount of details to support his alibi. Mr. Martin did not lie when telling of his night, he simply left of the most crucial events. Mr. Martin left out events that would have aided in Mrs. Barrows being rescued of being made a complete fool of. Mr. Fitweiler is also much more compassionate when talking with Mr. Martin as compared to Mrs. Barrows. When Mrs. Barrows walked into her boss’ office, immediately the room was filled with shouting that could be

“Why so scared Martin?” the lady said while grabbing his scrawny, defenseless arms and fastening him against the wall almost like she was attempting to push him through the side of the fossil, unsanitary, elevator. The only thing Martin could do at this point was scream for help, but again, no one could hear him. The lady’s large, hairy hand was now covering

- As Bigger’s mother and sister were changing, a large black rat appeared from a hole in the ground. Biggers first reaction was to grab a skillet and attempt to kill the rat. He reacted to the situation with violence. In the same way, the rat reacted by leaping on Bigger and biting his leg.

James Thurber was one of the most influential and unforgettable writers of his kind. He made modern-day problems seem preventable in the minds of people, and he tried to make them realize that the problems had to have a source. Thurber wrote of people struggling with day-to-day life that was once trouble-free and drew his ideas of humanity losing the direction it once had in the past. He attributed this change to wandering minds and ignorant actions on man's behalf. James Thurber used his artistic and creative abilities to make a point of human shortcomings through ingenious writings and comical sketches.

The next startling visual encountered is by Lady Anne as she walks the halls of a blood-riddled hospital in search of her dead husbands' body. Richard finds here in the morgue where she speaks of the holes (gunshots, not sword) that killed here husband. The wooing of Lady Anne is completed amongst the corpses, but not without Richard offering her equipment used for an autopsy to stab him in the neck to pay for his murderous deed. Than for the austerity of the ludicrous nature of this film, Richard pulls his wedding band out of his mouth.

Additionally Mrs Ferguson is even compared to an animal; “The silent, watchful mother seemed to be lying in wait as a wolf waits for a lamb” (Doyle 2). What is more, Ellen Harrington stated that; “”The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire” toys with the possibility of violent female sexuality in a foreign woman, whom [Sherlock] Holmes redeems by showing her true humanitarian motives” (8). At first, Mr Ferguson does not believe that his wife could be capable of such evil, however when he catches his wife ‘in the act’ she is “now confined to her room”, refusing herself to come out (Doyle 2).

The gloomy, seaside town of Cambridge holds a secret. Catherine Walker has the perfect life living in the upper east side of New York City working as a lawyer and living with her successful lawyer fiance, James Nolan. However, when she finds an old newspaper in her attic, she begins to realise that things are not quite as they seem in the Walker family. A dinner party leaves Catherine with some startling questions about her past, and she sets off to Cambridge to find some answers. The people of Cambridge are polite but doubtful she will be able to figure out the case after 23 years. She is intrigued by the highly intelligent police officer, Eli Morgan. Can Catherine uncover the secret of the murder before it 's too late, or will she have