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Walter Mitty Written by Mohammed Amine Belbachir First Semester / Group 3 Unlike any other realistic fiction short story, The secret world of Walter Mitty is a story written by James Thurber, in the thirdperson point of view, employing the use of Stories within a story where Walter is a Hero in his daydreams, and Anti-hero in the ordinary world. However, Walter Mitty is a dominated husband; particularly by his wife, who bosses him around, but Apparently, Walter s obvious ineptitude and carelessness play no remedial action neither to turn off the nagging of his wife, nor the everyday frustrations, but alternatively he simply retreats into his daydreams and tolerate his domineering wife. As melodramatically the first daydream begins We re going through! The commander s voice was like a thin ice breaking etc. Just then, Mrs. Mitty s domination occurs, once she shouts at Walter Not so fast! You re driving too fast! - And then, she orders him to slow down from fifty-five to forty You know I don t like to go more than forty, you were up to fifty-five - Therefore, Walter naively switches to forty, and drives in hush. Afterwards, Mrs. Mitty recommends her henpecked husband to see the physician Dr. Renshaw for a checkup It s one of your days. I wish you d let Dr. Renshaw look you over. Later on, Walter drops his wife off the building, she subsequently orders him to buy overshoes and put on his gloves Remember to get those overshoes while I m having my hair done ; Why don t you wear your gloves? Have you lost your gloves? - by then Thurber uses the ellipsis over again to introduce the escapism of Walter to the second daydream, in which Walter is not only one of the world's most outstanding surgeons, but also the anesthetizer-fixer. Just few moments later, Walter is back to the mundane world, in one way or another, he is just a pathetic loser, he hasn t got a clue about everyday mere activities, considering previously the matter of gloves and overshoes, yet the following incidents attest to his ineptitude. For instance, when he pulls into the exit only lane at the parking-lot; he attempts to remove snow chains from his car tires, but he ends up getting them wound around the axle and has to call a garage man to undo that, besides he tends to be forgetful, especially when wandering the streets of Waterbury, he tries to evoke his memory in order to remember what his wife ordered him to get, consequently he starts feeling paranoid regarding the thing as though he is a child, suddenly as a newsboy shows up and shouts something about Waterbury, Walter Mitty escapes desperately to another daydream, in an attempt to perform a further absurd deed, typically, claiming that he could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst from threehundred feet by shooting a gun with his left hand (in fact Walter is right-handed). Later on, unexpectedly the dream goes to an abrupt end when Walter remembers that he must purchase Puppy Biscuit . While Walter is lying back in the chair, reading the Liberty and immersing himself totally in the fourth daydream in which he is a pilot in the World War I , and then out of the blue, Mrs. Mitty whisks her husband off to the real world, striking his shoulder. She asks him sarcastically many questions through which Walter affirms over and over his inferiority. In Few Words, Walter is not willing to cease his domineering wife, because the overshoes, the gloves, the car, and the tire chains altogether symbolize his wife s control over, thus the ordinary Walter flees from everyday reality to an extraordinary world where he could momentarily hide from her, and equally make use of his heroic masculinity to fulfill his ordinary-eagerness. Finally, before bringing this to an end, there s a phrase in the last paragraph comes out ambiguous To Hell with the hand-kerchief - who knows? - Probably Walter passes to the grown-up phase, doesn t he? Written by Mohammed Amine Belbachir First Semester / Group 3