A Couple of Hamburgers is a 1935 short story by James Thurber, the American writer, considered to be one of his best.
It is a thumbnail sketch of a couple in a dysfunctional marriage.
It has been suggested that while The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, arguably Thurber's best known short story, is a comical story with a tragic side, this is a tragic story with a comical side.
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