The Night the Bed Fell | Characters/Techniques
Thurber sometimes combined fiction and nonfiction, as in "The Night the Bed Fell" to create what might be considered a new literary genre. The development of the concept of the "casual" at the New Yorker undoubtedly contributed to this, for the relatively light tone combined with a focus on familiar, everyday occurrences was well matched with the author's personality. The casual was also conducive to the technique of starting with an actual event in the writer's past and then branching off into fiction, extending the plot in order to carry a theme to an unlikely conclusion....
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