The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Techniques
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is one of the best known and most popular short stories in American literature. When it was printed it aroused more reaction than anything else ever published in the New Yorker — which, considering the brouhaha over Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" (1949), and the fact that John Hersey's Hiroshima (1946) and Rachael Carson's The Silent Spring (1962) appeared in the journal, is intriguing in itself.
The tale is a classic fantasy in which the Little Man husband, Mitty, escapes from the realities of his mundane world by imagining himself...
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