In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” James Thurber uses setting to contrast the protagonist’s thoughts, imagination, and feelings with his actual real life. To start with, the setting that is happening in Walter’s real life is pretty banal and uninteresting, “His wife would be through at the hairdresser’s in fifteen minutes … She didn’t like to get to the hotel first; she would want him to be there waiting for her as usual. He found a big leather chair in the lobby, facing the window, and he put the overshoes and the puppy biscuit on the floor beside it”(36). Seeing that in his real life his surroundings are a hair salon, a hotel lobby, and in other occasions a parking lot and pharmacy. These are pretty average/ dull locations in a
