Walter Mitty is getting older, and technology is starting to become too complicated for him. He tells the story of him trying to remove his car’s snow chains. He recalls that he could not take them off correctly and he managed to get them “wound around the axles” (722) and “a young, grinning, garageman” (722) had to do the chore for him. Walter Mitty is getting so old that the simple task of removing tire chains, which only requires a very basic knowledge of technology, is too complicated for him. The garageman is also said to be young, providing a contrast between him and Walter Mitty. In one of his daydreams, he is acting as a doctor operating on “the millionaire banker, Wellington McMillan” (721). While under anesthesia, “a huge, complicated
