'The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty'
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” by James Thurber Walter Mitty is an imaginative man. The story takes place over the course of a shopping trip that is frequently interrupted by Walter’s daydreams. His daydreams all have him as the main character that has been thrown into extremely urgent situations. It begins with a daydream that Walter is an adventurous polite that is flying through an intense storm. In his next one, Walter Mitty is an experienced surgeon and is the only one who can save the patient on the operating table. Next, Walter Mitty daydreams that he is in a courtroom being cross-examined by an attorney general about a murder case. In his last dream, Walter Mitty dreams that he is a war hero …show more content…
Walter Mitty leads a dull and unfulfilling life under the control of his wife. As a way to deal with his wife, he has built fantasy worlds that he can slip into whenever he wants. It is clear he does not want to be interrupted from these fantasies when he snaps back at his wife at the end of the story for distracting him by saying, ”Does it ever occur to you that I am sometimes thinking?” (Thurber). James Thurber, through the use of Walter Mitty’s character, demonstrates that when life is boring and unfulfilling, people will do what they can to cope with …show more content…
This is an internal conflict he is dealing with because he cannot stop himself from drifting off and every time he exists one of his fantasies he does so dazed and confused which has the potential to pose a very significant threat to him as well as those around him. And it does several times. The first was when he is taking his wife into the city and unknowingly speeds over 55 mph against his wife’s wishes. Another time being out of touch with reality during a daydream posed as a threat to him was when he pulled into the wrong lane and the parking attendant had to snap him back to reality and help him (Thurber). There is no resolution to this because he does not try and keep himself grounded in reality. A secondary conflict that Walter Mitty deals with in this story is his wife. This external conflict in the story is important though its minor because she may be frequently snapping him out of his day dreams, but she is doing it for his own
In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” by James Thurber Walter Mitty is an imaginative man. The story takes place over the course of a shopping trip that is frequently interrupted by Walter’s daydreams. His daydreams all have him as the main character that has been thrown into extremely urgent situations. It begins with a daydream that Walter is an adventurous polite that is flying through an intense storm. In his next one, Walter Mitty is an experienced surgeon and is the only one who can save the patient on the operating table. Next, Walter Mitty daydreams that he is in a courtroom being cross-examined by an attorney general about a murder case. In his last dream, Walter Mitty dreams that he is a war hero …show more content…
Walter Mitty leads a dull and unfulfilling life under the control of his wife. As a way to deal with his wife, he has built fantasy worlds that he can slip into whenever he wants. It is clear he does not want to be interrupted from these fantasies when he snaps back at his wife at the end of the story for distracting him by saying, ”Does it ever occur to you that I am sometimes thinking?” (Thurber). James Thurber, through the use of Walter Mitty’s character, demonstrates that when life is boring and unfulfilling, people will do what they can to cope with …show more content…
This is an internal conflict he is dealing with because he cannot stop himself from drifting off and every time he exists one of his fantasies he does so dazed and confused which has the potential to pose a very significant threat to him as well as those around him. And it does several times. The first was when he is taking his wife into the city and unknowingly speeds over 55 mph against his wife’s wishes. Another time being out of touch with reality during a daydream posed as a threat to him was when he pulled into the wrong lane and the parking attendant had to snap him back to reality and help him (Thurber). There is no resolution to this because he does not try and keep himself grounded in reality. A secondary conflict that Walter Mitty deals with in this story is his wife. This external conflict in the story is important though its minor because she may be frequently snapping him out of his day dreams, but she is doing it for his own