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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 we endure. Our d ....

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.... 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 Encyclopedia Brittanica the female is alike in many ways, such as its perfect construction and orderly appearance seeming as if they replicate one another like a clone. I be ....