What was Mr Martin's first name in 'The Catbird Seat' by James Thurber?

Answer 1

Mr. Martin changed his routine for a very good reason: to kill the woman who had been tearing up the pea patch in his office the past two years. It was not a radical change in his routine, certainly nothing to be hollering down the rain barrel about. He followed his usual routine throughout the day going to work at the same time, leaving for home at the same time and going to dinner at the same time. The sole change was in the route he took on the way home after dinner. This time he walked to Mrs. Barrows home rather than to his own. Why? So that he could call on her and when in her apartment, murder her. It wasn't as if Mr. Martin were lifting an oxcart out of the ditch by changing his route, it was nothing more than a slight change in direction so that he could murder Mrs. Barrows, that's all.

Answer 2

The plan succeeds swimmingly. All throughout the story Mr. Martin plots the "murder" of Mrs. Barrows in order to be rid of her and her irritating personality and intrusive manner. The reader is led down a primrose path of expectation of a horrible murder by use of a blunt object or sharp knife. But can this truly be the Mr. Martin of 22 years in the F & S firm? He smokes. He drinks. He plots. Yes, dear reader, he can even murder. Or can he? As he steps out of character it appears he loses his nerve, reverting to his true mild mannered self, blurting out secret plans as if drunk on one sip of whiskey. Poor Mr. Martin. He cannot go through with his plans, so he leaves as Mrs. Barrows orders him out promising to report him and his statements to Mr. Fitweiler. Mrs. Barrows faithfully reports the previous night's events to the incredulous boss. Every detail recounted by Mrs. Barrows is impeccably accurate, but so out of the character of Mr. Martin that they can be nothing but the ravings of a lunatic. She is dismissed and Mr. Martin is as free of her as if she were as dead as the same doornail Charles Dickens compared Marley to in "A Christmas Carol."

Answer 3

Mr. Martin's first name in "The Catbird Seat" by James Thurber is Erwin.

Answer 4

His first name is Erwin.