What is a little soul? A Little soul is a person that just cannot win. They try and try again, but they just cannot get it right. Someone who is a little soul may feel depersonalized in his or her life. Not feeling like they belong anywhere and feel hopeless to the world. It all started back in the twentieth century when rugged individuals started to feel depersonalize. As the book says is “they began to feel more frustrated and helpless in the face of institutions over which they had no control, more limited in terms of goals and ambitions, more like small cogs in large wheels, less like real persons more like sterile statistics” (Michalski and Rissover 139). Now a days a good example of this would be social security number, driver license, student number and many others. They feel they are just a number in the world we live in. A character that is a good example of a little soul is Mr. Martin in the story, “The Catbird Seat” by James Thurber. In this story Mr. Martin starts off feeling powerless, frustrated, and depersonalized, but what you find out at the end might…show more content… When he goes to her house to “rub her out” he find nothing that he can kill her with, so instead he decides to be cleaver. He is known to never have smoked or drank in his time at the company, so he does both at her apartment that night. Before he leaves he says to her “I’m sitting in the catbird seat (Thuber 156). The next morning he comes in to the office to hear her yelling at Mr. Fitweiler. He asks what going on to other co-worker, acting like he knows nothing. He gets called into Mr. Fitweilers office and is told exactly what he was hoping for. He doesn’t get yelled at, he gets told sorry for her. She gets fired because no one believes that he drank and smokes at her apartment. The one thing about this story is that Mr. Martin over comes the little soul feeling and wins at the