Since the early 1800’s to now, many stories in literature that were written about relationships still have a lot of relevance to present day relationships. Most popular stories reveal the emotional, controlling, sick side of relationships. The stories that are to be mentioned demonstrate how there is often one person in a relationship that gets way too power hungry. There are many hidden truths that the public is unable to see that the author reveals in the following stories: Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” and Shaw’s “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses.”
It is clear to see from the beginning of “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” that Walter Mitty is a helpless, defenseless, vulnerable “man” who lives in a dream 90% of the time …show more content…
Michael then acts like she’s clueless by asking “How do you know I was looking at her?” Insecure, Frances says “She’s not so pretty, anyway.” The reader can see that Frances desperately tries to have a normal, functional relationship with her husband as she says “Let’s not see anybody all day...let’s just hang around with each other. You and me. We’re always up to our neck in people, drinking their Scotch or drinking our Scotch….I want my [husband] to only talk to me and listen only to me.” The oddity of their relationship continues when Michael randomly looks at his wife and says “I have not touched another woman. Not once. In all the five years”, as if that’s an accomplishment. A relationship is about two people making each other happy and completing on another… when Frances says “I try not to notice it...but I feel rotten inside, in my stomach, when we pass a woman and you look at her and I see that look in your eye and that’s the way you looked at me the first time…standing there...with a green hat on...” the reader can now fully believe that they are in a screwed up relationship as that’s no way to feel while in relationship. Michael's true character comes out as he replies “I remember that hat”
It is clear to see from the beginning of “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” that Walter Mitty is a helpless, defenseless, vulnerable “man” who lives in a dream 90% of the time …show more content…
Michael then acts like she’s clueless by asking “How do you know I was looking at her?” Insecure, Frances says “She’s not so pretty, anyway.” The reader can see that Frances desperately tries to have a normal, functional relationship with her husband as she says “Let’s not see anybody all day...let’s just hang around with each other. You and me. We’re always up to our neck in people, drinking their Scotch or drinking our Scotch….I want my [husband] to only talk to me and listen only to me.” The oddity of their relationship continues when Michael randomly looks at his wife and says “I have not touched another woman. Not once. In all the five years”, as if that’s an accomplishment. A relationship is about two people making each other happy and completing on another… when Frances says “I try not to notice it...but I feel rotten inside, in my stomach, when we pass a woman and you look at her and I see that look in your eye and that’s the way you looked at me the first time…standing there...with a green hat on...” the reader can now fully believe that they are in a screwed up relationship as that’s no way to feel while in relationship. Michael's true character comes out as he replies “I remember that hat”