The White Deer | Literary Qualities
Thurber manipulates the simple forms of fairy tales, with their conventional characters, frequent three-part structures, and love-quest plots, to produce a richly entertaining story with a serious moral intention.
Like "Snow-White" and "The Sleeping Beauty," The White Deer tells how a handsome prince breaks the spell that binds a beautiful princess. Within this structure Thurber includes the three perilous labors, quests to earn a maiden's hand. Each quest serves the overall theme of faith in love, testing the quester's suitability. Thurber places over this entire...
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