An American Romance | Techniques
The fact that Thurber wrote "An American Romance" at one short sitting was an anomaly. Normally, he spent enormous amounts of time perfecting his writing; many works remained unfinished for years. To some extent the writer's commitment of time to his work helps to explain his success. Thurber's style is his trademark. It is above all readable. Perhaps because his pieces are short they hold the reader's attention. (In spite of his several attempts to write a novel — one of which resulted in his spending "a thousand hours" on a 20, 000-word book that went through twenty to thirty...
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