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More Different Than Similar

More Different Than Similar

Marrying Absurd” and “The Night the Bed Fell”: More different than similar

Although comedy and satire are similar literary styles, they sharply contrast in a few fundamental areas. These fundamental differences are clear in a comparison of the comedic short story “The Night the Bed Fell,” by James Thurber, and the satiric “Marrying Absurd,” by Joan Didion. Broadly defined, a comedy can be is a work depicting the uphill struggle and eventual success of a sympathetic hero; usually about ordinary people in difficult but non-life-threatening predicaments. Satire, on the other hand, is a genre that exposes and ridicules human vice and folly. Its characters are usually unsympathetic, often detestable and seldom commendable. “Marrying Absurd” and “The Night the Bed Fell” can be contrasted as representatives of their genre’s in three areas: their tone, their purpose and their method. 
The tone of a comedy is generally light-hearted and entertaining, whereas the tone of a satire is critical and ridiculing. In fact, what most sharply separates comedy from satire is their entertainment quality. In this tradition, through his descriptions’ of various characters, Thurber clearly sets a lighthearted tone for his comedic short story, “The Night the Bed Fell.” Thurber makes straightforward characterizations,

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