The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

What is the climax of the story, what is absurd in day dream and where does his ''secret life" 'take him and what does he become?

Walter Mitty's daydreams take him into different experiences where he is smart, heroic and living dangerously.  His first daydream has him as a flight commander in a dangerous situation.  Because of the nature of the narrative, there is no set climax.

"Thurber's narrative proficiency is such that he actually writes six stories within one."

"None of the mini-narratives have decisive conclusions: each of the dream sequences, like the entire story, is an abbreviated short story with no clear beginning or end."

It is difficult to identify a particular climax in the story, since the main character goes in and out of daydreams throughout the short story.  

The action slowly rises and slowly falls, throughout, providing no significant climatic point.  At the end of the story, Mitty is the same as he was in the beginnig, in the middle of another daydream. 

"Walter Mitty is a daydreamer who imagines himself the hero of his fantasies as a navy pilot commander, doctor, sharpshooter, bomber pilot, and noble victim of a firing squad."