Walter Mitty Poem

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Brooke Smith Before I even began to read “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, I was already interested in what it was going to be about because the author, James Thurber, is from my hometown Columbus, Ohio. So this made me curious as to what a writer who grew up where I did would write about. When I first read the story, I thought I accidently skipped a few pages because the story went from one thing to another. As I read along though, I realized that I was wrong and that this seemed to be a main theme throughout the story. Walter Mitty seemed to be controlled a lot by his wife, Mrs. Mitty, a lot. And it seemed like to get away from this he fantasized a lot about things way beyond his reality. I think that since Mrs. Mitty was in control of him so much, with telling him what to do all the time and what not, Walter’s fantasies and day dreams were his only real escape, and his own way of being in control of things himself. I think this because his fantasies are those of where he is in control a lot of the time, such as being the lead surgeon, a bomber pilot, and the captain of a vessel. I like the character of Walter. He seems to have the mind of a little kid that is stuck in an older person’s body with the way that he thinks and fantasizes about things. The story ended up being quite interesting to me. I wasn’t really sure on the ending of the story, but I think he started to fantasize again when Mrs. Mitty went back inside because she forgot something. And because of this, I think it just shows the continuous fantasies with Walter and how he isn’t going to change from
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