Use Of Imagery In James Thurber's The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty

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Have you ever wanted to learn about an interesting short story? Then I have the perfect short story for you. You could think of possibly anything and Walter Mitty would dream about it and make it seem special. The short story is called “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”by James Thurber, it is an interesting story about a guy named Walter Mitty, who has a nagging wife constantly on him, but he goes through his boring life imagining about all the cool stuff he could do. A dominant theme in James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is Imagery. He shows imagery in his short story by making his character, Walter Mitty, imagine he's in these obstacles, which he pretends he's something he's not. Throughout the story, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” James Thurber uses literary elements like imagery and allusion to get his theme across to the readers. …show more content…

We can see throughout the story that he daydreams about all these different scenarios, including: navy pilot commander, doctor, sharpshooter, bomber pilot, and noble victim of a firing squad. It states in the outside source, “Mitty is married to a woman who treats him more like a child than a husband. This is due to his immature tendency to escape into fantasies rather than live in the real world.” This quote is impactful because we can infer if he didn't have a nagging wife, that's constantly on him, he probably would've had a better life, instead of imaging about interesting missions. In conclusion, I believe that if Walter Mitty didn't have a nagging wife, then he would've had a way better life. As we see throughout the story, we can tell he was on those missions because of his wife and he wanted to get away from her. The short story, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” was a good short story to read and it taught me a lot about how his life went and what he did to change it. It had a lot of different elements of literature, but the best one I saw was

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