The Secret Life of Walter Mitty :: essays papers

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The story is about Walter Mitty, a henpecked and air castle urban man, who often depends on air castleing to escape real life. As the story begins, Walter Mitty is driving his wife to town for an appointment at a beauty shop. Triggered by the wild storm, he begins to imagine himself as the commanding officer of a Navy hydroplane. He dreams that the plane is in trouble hardly the divisions of the crew have complete faith in his ability. One member of the crew says, The Old Manll get us through. Mitty is brought back from this reverie by his wifes voice, as she says, Not so fast Youre driving too fast What are you driving so fast for? His second daydream is activated by his wifes suggestion to see Dr. Renshaw and retch on gloves. In the second daydream, he fancies that he is helping some(prenominal) famous physicians save a millionaire by fixing a entangled machine that no one in the East can fix. He even envisages that he finally acts a s operator. He is pulled back into naive realism by the cheering of a parking-lot attendant. Annoyed by the embarrassment at the parking lot and the failure of his memory and stimulated by the shouting of a newsboy about the Waterbury trial, Mitty sets off the third daydream in which he is on trial for murder. In the trial, he accurately recalls and valorously admits that he has killed Gregory Fitzhurst despite the efforts of his attorney to prove his innocence. He was aroused to truth by his subconscious murmuring of puppy biscuit and the laughing of a passing woman. Sitting into a big leather chair in the lobby, he starts his fourth daydream by looking at the pictures of assail planes and of ruined streets in an old copy of Liberty.