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A Study Guide for James Thurber's "The Princess and the Tin Box," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
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A Study Guide for James Thurber's "The Princess and the Tin Box" - Gale
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The Princess and the Tin Box
James Thurber
1945
Introduction
James Thurber gained fame as the author of humorous essays and sketches penned for the New Yorker and for short fiction such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
Yet Thurber also authored numerous fantasy stories, fables, and fairy tales for children. The Princess and the Tin Box
is framed as a fairy tale but also serves as subtle, satirical commentary on contemporary society.
In the story, the king, who has showered his daughter with wealth since her birth, tells her she must select a husband from the suitors who will soon be bringing her gifts. Four are wealthy and bring expensive gifts, while a poor but handsome prince brings pretty but worthless stones he has collected along his journey. The princess's eager response to the handsome prince's gift suggests initially that she will select his gift as her favorite and consequently select him for her mate, but she chooses one of the wealthy princes. A moral at the end of the story scolds any reader who thought the princess would do otherwise. Thurber's tale both embraces and mocks the conventions of the fairy story and at the same time satirizes the materialism inherent in his society. The Princess and the Tin Box
was originally published in the New Yorker on September 29, 1945, and appeared later in Thurber's short-story collection The Beast in Me and Other Animals: A New Collection of Pieces and Drawings about Human Beings and Less Alarming Creatures, published in
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