Nov 18, 2008

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Social Concerns

Throughout his writing career, Thurber was concerned about the misfit in society. Usually Thurber's misfits are simple, sensitive, imaginative men caught in a mundane world that they do not completely understand and over which they have little or no control. Typically, the world is too caught up in its own concerns to have much patience with such men, or to recognize their nature. Instead, it merely steamrolls over them. By extension, in examining the place of the imaginative Little Man in society, Thurber is metaphorically considering the conflict between an artist and his society. Another...