The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James Thurber
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: The late 1930's
- Setting: Waterbury, Connecticut
- Principal Characters: Walter Mitty, Mrs. Mitty
- Genres: Short fiction, Wit and humor
- Subjects: Freedom, Husbands, Wives, Reality, Oppression, Fantasy, Imagination, Materialism, Technology
The Story
Although Walter Mitty's daydream life has much exciting action, his waking life, as recounted in the story, is routine, uneventful, and, at a deep subconscious level, unsatisfying. In his waking life, Mitty motors on a wintry day with his wife into Waterbury for the regular weekly trip to shop and for Mrs. Mitty's visit to the beauty parlor. After dropping his wife off at the salon, Mitty drives around aimlessly for a brief time, then parks the car in a parking lot, purchases some overshoes at a shoe store, with some difficulty remembers to buy puppy biscuit, and goes...
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