Walter Mitty’s mindset
“The secret life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber is a story about a man named Walter Mitty, who uses his creative imagination to fill colour in his dull life. In the world of his imagination, he is a hero, but in his real life, Mitty has low self-esteem. He wanted to be a heroic role-model because when he is driving a car, he thinks he is driving a navy hydroplane and gets back to real life when his wife says “Not so fast!”(Thurber 33). This exemplifies that he loves dreaming about being a hero so much that he forgets his real life. Another example was when Mitty imagined himself in an operating room and Pritchard-Mitford praises him by saying “I read your book on strepthothricosis………brilliant performance, sir”(34).
“The secret life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber is a story about a man named Walter Mitty, who uses his creative imagination to fill colour in his dull life. In the world of his imagination, he is a hero, but in his real life, Mitty has low self-esteem. He wanted to be a heroic role-model because when he is driving a car, he thinks he is driving a navy hydroplane and gets back to real life when his wife says “Not so fast!”(Thurber 33). This exemplifies that he loves dreaming about being a hero so much that he forgets his real life. Another example was when Mitty imagined himself in an operating room and Pritchard-Mitford praises him by saying “I read your book on strepthothricosis………brilliant performance, sir”(34).