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The Catbird Seat

James Thurber

First published August 1952
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Mr. Martin and Mrs. Barrows work at the same company. He is methodical and traditional, she is brash and trying to change things around. He decides she must be gotten rid of.

First published in the New Yorker, 14 November 1942.

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