Taming Life
Many people have gotten through a boring day by imaging they were somewhere else, someone else or doing something different. This is the only way Walter Mitty, the main character in the short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber can escape his boring life. Walter’s daydreams make up a large portion of the text as he goes back and forth between reality and dreams. In the real world, Walter is a forgetful man who must obey his wife every within. In Walter’s fantasy he is intelligent, brave and the epitome of manliness. Having no control over his life, Walter Mitty daydreams to make him feel important, he creates characteristics he lacks in the real world through the heroic characters he embodies in his fantasies.
Many people have gotten through a boring day by imaging they were somewhere else, someone else or doing something different. This is the only way Walter Mitty, the main character in the short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber can escape his boring life. Walter’s daydreams make up a large portion of the text as he goes back and forth between reality and dreams. In the real world, Walter is a forgetful man who must obey his wife every within. In Walter’s fantasy he is intelligent, brave and the epitome of manliness. Having no control over his life, Walter Mitty daydreams to make him feel important, he creates characteristics he lacks in the real world through the heroic characters he embodies in his fantasies.