James Thurber’s unicorn story is a wonderfully, humorous fable about the glories of imagination and the follies of bitterness, because the man here sees something unreal and his wife really isn’t impressed at all. People have two choices when watching this cartoon: to believe the man actually saw the unicorn or whether he dreamt the whole thing in order to get his wife committed. It is clear that she wanted him out of the way, but he was glad when she was sent off, thus she doesn’t smile like him (other than when she thinks he needs a straightjacket). However, the husband is victorious in the end when the roles are reversed and the wife repeats the very thing for which she tries to get him in trouble. Ironically, it is she who gets taken away.