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The Owl And The Pussycat

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The Owl And The Pussycat	comment	"The Owl and the Pussycat" is a horror short story written by Thomas M. Disch. It was published in 1999 in the horror anthology "999".The story is a dark reinterpretation of Edward Lear's 1983 poem of the same name. The main characters are two sentient stuffed animals: "Hooter", a timid and sensitive stuffed owl, and "Dampy", a jaded and solitary stuffed pussycat. The pair eventually fall in love, and the story follows their struggle to get married while living in the abusive environment of the Fairfield household. Lear's poem exists in-universe and plays an important role in the plot.
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The Owl And The Pussycat / int_164583e3	comment	Purely Aesthetic Gender: It's briefly stated that Mr. Fairfield considers Dampy a girl simply because the Pussycat in "The Owl and the Pussycat" Nursery rhyme is a girl. Hooter and Dampy both consider themselves male. When they later decide to get married, Dampy jokingly references Mr. Fairfield's insistence that he is female to calm Hooter's fears about being ostracized for a same-sex marriage
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The Owl And The Pussycat / int_2260cfe3	type	Like Father, Like Son
The Owl And The Pussycat / int_2260cfe3	comment	Like Father, Like Son: The personalities of Dampy and Hooter are based off of Mrs. Fairfield and Mr. Fairfield, respectively.
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The Owl And The Pussycat / int_2d363f63	type	Frame-Up
The Owl And The Pussycat / int_2d363f63	comment	Frame-Up: Dampy poisons Mr. Fairfield's first wife with sleeping pills and later implicates Mr. Fairfield in the murder. This leads to Mr. Fairfield getting arrested and Dampy and Hooter being removed from the Fairfield's care.
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The Owl And The Pussycat / int_3b23e81	type	Plot Twist
The Owl And The Pussycat / int_3b23e81	comment	Plot Twist: Dampy and Hooter are not actual living toys, but instead personalities invented by the Fairfield's son.
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The Owl And The Pussycat / int_8071d6ed	type	Alcoholic Parent
The Owl And The Pussycat / int_8071d6ed	comment	Alcoholic Parent: Mr. Fairfield, Dampy and Hooter's father, is required to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings after being arrested for driving under the influence. He hides the fact that he continues to drink while driving.
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The Owl And The Pussycat / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
The Owl And The Pussycat / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Mr. Fairfeilds first wife died before the beginning of the story.
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The Owl And The Pussycat / int_a1591cc3	type	Living Toys
The Owl And The Pussycat / int_a1591cc3	comment	Living Toys: Dampy and Hooter are both sentient stuffed animals.
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The Owl And The Pussycat / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Owl And The Pussycat / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Mr. Fairfield is verbally demeaning to both Dampy and Hooter, and hits Hooter across the room at one point. However, The reveal that Dampy and Hooter are actually inanimate objects whose personalities were imagined by Mr. Fairfield's son retroactively lessens the severity of his actions. Mr. Fairfield never shows aggression towards his son in the story, only his son's stuffed animals. The late Mrs. Fairfield, by contrast, was so abusive towards her son that the police had to get involved multiple times.
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The Owl And The Pussycat / int_b489805d	type	Hollywood Autism
The Owl And The Pussycat / int_b489805d	comment	Hollywood Autism: The Fairfield's son is stated to be autistic and interacts with the world through his stuffed animals. Dampy and Hooter's characterizations are apparently the extent of his identity, as there is nothing in the narration (which is from his perspective) that suggests a personality separate from the stuffed animals
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The Owl And The Pussycat / int_b790a174	type	Metaphorical Marriage
The Owl And The Pussycat / int_b790a174	comment	Metaphorical Marriage: Dampy and Hooter "get married" in the woods behind the Fairfield's house. They exchange a ring that was stolen from Mrs. Fairfield's jewelry case, and then bury it in the backyard.
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The Owl And The Pussycat / int_c0e3994b	type	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
The Owl And The Pussycat / int_c0e3994b	comment	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: In-Universe example. Mr. Fairfield's first wife would physically attack him when she got drunk and then call the police on him if he retaliated. This resulted in Mr. Fairfield being arrested twice.
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The Owl And The Pussycat / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Owl And The Pussycat / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Mr. Fairfield and his first wife are only referred to by their surnames. Their son is also never named in the story, as everyone addresses his stuffed animals instead of him
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The Owl And The Pussycat / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Owl And The Pussycat / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Dampy consistently mis-refers to Mr. Fairfield's girlfriend as "The second Mrs. Fairfield", apparently unaware that the couple isn't married. This masks the plot twist that the personalities of Dampy and Hooter are based not on Mr. Fairfield and his girlfriend, but Mr. Fairfield and his first wife (who is in actuality his only wife).
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The Owl And The Pussycat / int_dd5c2ab6	type	All Abusers Are Male
The Owl And The Pussycat / int_dd5c2ab6	comment	All Abusers Are Male: Subverted. Mr. Fairfield is initially set up to be an abusive husband who killed his first wife. Both of those charges are revealed to be wrong: his wife was violent towards him and had a history of abusing their son, and it was his son (as Dampy) who killed his wife and pinned the blame on him.
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The Owl And The Pussycat / int_efd11a7d	comment	A Dog Named "Cat": "Hooter" is a teddy bear. He was named by Mr. Fairfield, who mistook the damaged teddy bear for a stuffed owl.
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