The Unicorn in the Garden by James Thurber: Summary

The Unicorn in the Garden - Summary James Thurber (1894-1961) is an American author. His short story “The Unicorn in the Garden” presents the story of a couple who lives two separate lives in the same house. This story is a fable and it has some fairy-tale features. The first and the last sentence are typical sentences of fairy tales. It is a fable because the story has a moral at the end.  The story opens with a man sitting at home eating breakfast and his wife sleeping upstairs. The husband sees a unicorn in the family garden eating flowers and tells his wife about it. He wants to wake up his wife, but she is angry about disturbing her.  Without getting up to look out the window, she tells him that it cannot be there in the garden because it is a mythical beast. He goes back into the garden, and returns again to the bedroom, telling him that it has a golden horn in the middle of its forehead. His wife, still not getting up, warns him that he is a booby and she is going to have to put …