James thurber satire

My two favorite story's out of this selection were "The Bear" and "The Little Girl and The Wolf". The reason i liked these stories is because they both had a very surprising ending. Thurber's stories began sounding very similar to other stories i've heard, but ended up nothing like anything i've ever heard. I think James uses satire by showing what he thinks would really happen now in the present in those types of situations. For example, nobody i know would ever get tricked by a random wolf in the forest, and on top of that, everyone i know would shoot the wolf  if they had a gun, which is exactly how that situation went down in Jame's story.