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Jason Koczeniak
The Reasons for Walter Mitty's Daydream
Most people daydream from time to time when they are bored. Daydreaming often gives a pleasant break from dull reality, and it lets people pretend to be or do things they could not in real life. Walter Mitty, the main character in James Thurber's story "The Secret ....
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.... of the daydream and the incompetent man of real life is repeated over and over. Each repetition shows the difference between Mitty's real and imagined lives.
Mitty is aware of his real-life incompetence and shows it when he recalls the story of the snow chains (Sundell 1285). In that story Mitty remembers a time when he tried to take chains off his tires and ended up tangling them on the axles of the car. He had to call a garage mechanic to take off the chains for him, and he was embarrassed. Carl Sundell believes that this story shows that Mitty has a ....
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