James Thurber's The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty

Reality Vs. Fantasy

Thesis: Thurber shows that Mittys daydreams are quite different from his real personality; he is adventurous in his day dreams but extremely helpless in humankind; he is a attracter in fantasies and a milktoast in reality; he is confident in dreams, but he has no confidence in reality.

I.         Walter Mitty chooses to reach his fantasies into situations that merely would not occur at some(prenominal) capitulum in his life or become a reality that he would be familiar with.

a.         Walter Mitty dreams of an adventurous lifestyle because plain he lacks of adventure in his own life.

b.         Being an item-by-item attractor in his fantasies, Walter Mitty is really a hen pecked married man in reality.

c.         Lacking confidence in his life, Walter Mitty is a bedevil husband who must depend on his wifes organizing his life release him to daydream about being a confident leader in unrealistic situations that would never occur at any point in his life.

II.         Walter Mitty dreams of an adventurous lifestyle because obviously he lacks of adventure in his own life.

1.         Walter Mitty drove on toward in silence, the roaring of the SN202 through the worst storm in twenty dollar bill years of Navy flying fading in the remote, versed airways of his mind. (Thurber 73)

2.         A womans scream rose above the bedlam and of a sudden a lovely, dark haired girl was in Walter Mittys arms. (Thurber 74)

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        Then, with that faint, fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing team; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last. (Thurber 75)

III.         Being an independent leader in his fantasies, Walter Mitty is really a hen pecked husband in reality.

1.         Not so flying! Youre driving too fast! said Mrs. Mitty. What are you driving...

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