No one likes the center of attention. For just a moment, your surroundings have drawn their complete focus to you and only you – it is super discomforting. However, every now and then, a hint of it could only be necessary, whether it is a part of reality or a part of a fantasy. It does not have to be much, but it could make a significant change on your lifestyle. Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” argues for the presence significance as a basic human need, through Walter Mitty’s escapism fueled daydreams.
Walter Mitty’s sense of insignificance causes him to exert his authority onto his individualized fictional scenarios. As Mitty ponders about the “cockiness” of his peers, the narrator recalls, “Once he had tried to take the chains off, outside New Milford, …show more content…
A man had had to come out in a wrecking car and unwind them, a young, grinning garageman” (Thurber, 2). Mitty faces a defeat upon witnessing a supposedly younger male perform a job that he has proven to be incapable of. Watching someone who should have less skills perform such a job makes Mitty feel as though he lacks essential and fundamental skills. Confronting any incapability induces feelings of worthlessness or having a minimal amount of things to offer for the world. Additionally, the text brings about sensations of emotional neglect along with an incapability, suggesting that feelings of insignificance is brought up upon such situations. Prior to this memory, Mitty enters a figment of his imagination, speaking to a fellow doctor and acquaintance in an operation room, “‘I’ve read your book on streptothricosis’ said Pritchard-Mitford, shaking hands. ‘A brilliant performance sir’” (2). The daydream demonstrates the “exceptional skills” he retains and offers to the world. He earns the acclaim
Walter Mitty’s sense of insignificance causes him to exert his authority onto his individualized fictional scenarios. As Mitty ponders about the “cockiness” of his peers, the narrator recalls, “Once he had tried to take the chains off, outside New Milford, …show more content…
A man had had to come out in a wrecking car and unwind them, a young, grinning garageman” (Thurber, 2). Mitty faces a defeat upon witnessing a supposedly younger male perform a job that he has proven to be incapable of. Watching someone who should have less skills perform such a job makes Mitty feel as though he lacks essential and fundamental skills. Confronting any incapability induces feelings of worthlessness or having a minimal amount of things to offer for the world. Additionally, the text brings about sensations of emotional neglect along with an incapability, suggesting that feelings of insignificance is brought up upon such situations. Prior to this memory, Mitty enters a figment of his imagination, speaking to a fellow doctor and acquaintance in an operation room, “‘I’ve read your book on streptothricosis’ said Pritchard-Mitford, shaking hands. ‘A brilliant performance sir’” (2). The daydream demonstrates the “exceptional skills” he retains and offers to the world. He earns the acclaim