For example; she has to keep reminding him to get a pair of overshoes while she is getting her hair done. Walter argues his point by saying,” I don't need overshoes”(Clugston, 2010). As he drove away from his wife his mind began to wonder and in no time he was in a completely different life with a more adventurous surrounding. All of the sudden he was Dr. Mitty and was about to assist with a surgery when he was awakened by a parking lot attendant. This made Walter very angry as he stepped out of his car and began walking along Main Street.
The heroes he becomes in his many fantasies are courageous, substantial people who take charge and impress everyone around them. However, in reality, he lives a usual life with no excitement and obeys his nagging wife. Walter Mitty is a typical husband in the 1930s. He is suffering from many problems such as emotional and financial issues which lead him to create a different person, the side of him that is the person he wishes he could be, significant, bold, and heroic. The title of this short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, confirms that the reader will be involved in Walter Mitty’s “secret life” which is actually his imagination.
Jack is overly obsessed with the thought of becoming old. He talks about himself as if he was an elderly man on his death bed. He sees Yaemon and Chenault as the younger crowd and he is much older than them when in reality he is less than ten years older than them. Jack is Jack is afraid of committing to anything. Jack gets an apartment, and a car but that doesn't last long.
  Passages from the Text Pggg Comments and Questions “lived in Udine and came out this way nearly every day to see how things were going, and things went very badly.” 4 Implying that the King lived in Udine and came out the same way everyday in a speeding car, which probably means that it was very dangerous for the King and he had to move fast. World War I was probably really terrible and that’s why things didn’t look so good. A lot of people were dieing. "I was very glad that the Austrians seemed to want to come back to the town some time, if the war should end, because they did not bombard it to destroy it but only a little in a military way." 5 Saying that the Austrians liked the little and could enjoy the pleasures of life
I was hungry, hot and tired and simply wanted to go home but of course this was out of the question. After about an hour of sitting in a blistering hot car while my father tinkered with the lady’s car, the car finally decided to start. As we began to embark upon our journey home I mustered up enough courage to pose the question, what do you guys get out of always helping people? My mother looked at my father with adoring admiration and they both smiled at me and said that helping people is their purpose in life. They went into a great deal of detail as to how they were intricately designed by God to help people along the way.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 1 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Y.Michelle Jackson Introduction to Literature Instructor: Lyndsey Lefebvre June 2, 2014 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 2 Walter Mitty is an imaginary character, but he resembles individuals we often meet even individuals we think we know pretty well. His behavior is the focus of the story. Mitty is repeatedly distracted by daydreams, making it necessary for his wife to keep him focused when he is driving and for a parking lot attendant to park his car for him. Even when Walter is on a specific shopping errand, his mind wanders. Mitty’s character, is not totally out of touch with life (as cited in Clugston, 2010).
First of all, I closely relate to the “Overemphasis on Independence” theme. The author begins relating this theme by telling a story of an old man struggling to push his grocery cart to his car and when she asks him for help, he rudely tells her no. I feel like this theme holds a strong place in my daily life. I feel like as a young independent lady that I can do pretty much just about anything for myself. So when a guy at works politely asks me if I need help
He tells Connie he is her age and has come to take for a ride in their car with his sidekick Ellie; Connie slowly realizes that he is actually much older, and grows afraid. As Connie refuses to go with him, he becomes more forceful and threatening, saying that he will harm her family (while at the
Though his disciplined life in Munich afforded him wealth and high regard among peers, Aschenbach's pursuit of perfection had left him exhausted and repressed. As an aquaintance once remarked: “See, Aschenbach has always lived like this” —and he formed a fist with his left hand—“but never like that”—and he let his now-open hand drop nonchalantly from the armrest of his lounge chair." Intended to describe Aschenbach's tense and resticted manner, the symbolism of this phrase has two actual meanings; not only is Achenbach's personality anxious and reserved, he is also clutching onto an imposed moral certainty with a tenuous grasp. Mann confirms the remarking observer's use of a fist to represent Aschenbach's state of mind as true indeed, though he clarifies that Aschenbach had conditioned himself to be so robust, it had not come naturally. Aschenbach is dedicated to "moral resoluteness in the presence of deepest knowledge" (6) which he maintains by restraining his emotions and desires, writing discontent off as merely "the character of innermost genius" (5).
Butler, argues that “identity... [is] living now and hereafter, in any two successive moments” and because she has every moment of her existence in this wretched place it is clear it must represent her identity. Myrtle marries George Wilson, a mechanic who own a garage. In order for him to get business he must repair broken things and in order to do so, things must be broken which is common in this area. Myrtle surprisingly confesses to Tom and the others that, “I married him because I thought he was a gentleman...but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe” (Fitzgerald 34).