The Secret World of Walter Mitty

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* Semester : 1 * Group : 5/6 * Full name : Salim laaraj & Oussama merzak Unlike any other realistic fiction short story, The secret world of Walter Mitty is a story written by James Thurber, in the third-person 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. 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 slowdown 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 getthose overshoes while I’m having my hair done; Why dont you wearyour 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
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