Summary of lesson the curb in the sky James Thurber
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Charlie Deshler was an impetuous, self-assured man before he married Dorothy.
Since her childhood Dorothy has been a know-all who cannot help correcting and
instructing other people. As she is quite good-looking, men have always found her
attractive. Yet, although she stirs them up emotionally, mentally she completely
wears them down because of her habit of constantly correcting them.
Despite his friends' warnings Charlie Deshler marries Dorothy. At first he succeeds quite well
in protecting himself from her constant interference. Having travelled
widely he can talk about things and places she is not acquainted with.
However, as Dorothy gradually becomes familiar with her husband's stories it is possible for
her to revert to her old habit of interrupting and correcting.
In vain Charlie seeks refuge in his dreams. They are the only stories he can tell without fear of
interruption because only he can know about them. Gradually they become the only life he
has that he can call his own. Finally Charlie has to be taken to a mental asylum. Yet
even there he is not safe from his wife. When the narrator goes to visit him she is sitting by
his bedside, as bright and cheerful as ever. When Charlie starts to tell his one
remaining story she interrupts with, "No. You pulled over to a cloud. There aren't any curbs in
the sky." The inevitable has happened: the dream has been repeated so often that Dorothy
knows it by heart and feels completely qualified to add her own corrections.