Daydreams In The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty

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Daydreams do not always obligatorily take place in the clouds. Daydreaming is eluding the authentic world to the imagination. In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” Walter eludes his life and sanctions his imagination to surmount, leaving it up to his wife to bring him back into reality. Walter Mitty defines the distinguishment between reality and fantasy through different settings, moods, and characters. Daydreaming may be deleterious, thrilling, or propitious.
Daydreaming could be deleterious if not aware of reality’s surroundings. In, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” Walter daydreams without checking the perils of reality. Thurber verbally expressed, “The crew, bending to their various tasks in the huge, hurtling eight-engined

Mitty’s fantasies were astronomically detailed and recited by Thurber, “I’ve read your book streptothricosis,’ said Pritchard-Mitford, shaking hands. ‘A brilliant performance, sir.’ ‘Thank you,’ said Walter Mitty. ‘Didn’t know you were in the States, Mitty,’ grumbled Remington. ‘Coals to Newcastle, bring Mitford and me up here for a tertiary.’” (page 2) In this daydream, Walter Mitty is a medico performing surgery on a patient. Mitty is withal in a different setting than where he commenced, which was at his wife’s hairdresser. Thurber describes an incipient setting, “‘Objection!’ shouted Mitty’s attorney. ‘We have shown that the defendant could not have fired the shot. We have shown that we wore his right arm in a sling on the night of the fourteenth of July.’” (page 3) In this scene, Mitty describes his dream in the setting of a courtroom where Walter is being incriminated of the murder of Gregory Fitzhurst. Once again, Walter Mitty is not in reality, but living the thrilling daydream fantasy of his. Daydreams are thrilling and deleterious, but all concurrently, could be highly

Humans can be too fixated on their job, life, or problems and forget to relax and be creative. Mitty, however, is perpetually utilizing his imagination and daydreaming. When he is assigned a task by his wife, Mrs. Mitty, Walter forgets his task at hand. After being brought back into reality from his daydream, he suddenly recollects and consummates the errand. James Thurber integrates, “I’ll have my right arm in a sling and they’ll see I couldn’t possibly take the chains off myself. He kicked the slush on the sidewalk. ‘Overshoes,’ he said to himself, and he began looking for a shoe store.” (page 3) Walter Mitty had recently been daydreaming about being a medico and got brought back to reality by a truck backing up. He then recollected a time when “his arm was in a sling” and he was deciding how to take off chains, looked down at his shoes and that triggered his recollection. Every time that Walter Mitty visually perceives an intriguing headline, phrase, or hears an intriguing fact, his imagination, surmounts. James said, “He picked up an old copy of Liberty and sank down into the chair. ‘Can Germany Conquer the World Through the air?’ Walter Mitty looked at the pictures of bombing planes and of ruined streets. … ‘The cannonading has got the wind up in young Raleigh, sir,’ said the sergeant. Captain Mitty looked up at him through tousled hair.” (page 4) As Walter Mitty picked up and read the magazine, his