Walter Mitty Character Essay
Walter Mitty in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” daydreams about being courageous, yet in real life he is a coward, and a wimp. Walter Mitty has five different daydreams throughout the story. His first daydream is about him being a commander of a hydroplane. He has no fear, and he holds all the power, he tells the crew to do their work and they obey without question. “The crew looked at each other and grinned, ‘The Old Man’ll get us through,’ they said to one another.” “The Old Man ain’t afraid of Hell!” (1288). Walter is abruptly wakened from his daydream by his pushy wife who is yelling at him to slow down. Walter looks at his wife and realizes that she seems “grossly unfamiliar” (1288). She tells Walter that he needs to go see the doctor. She also reminds him to get overshoes and puppy biscuits, which he will soon forget about them. Walter’s second daydream is about him being a brilliant surgeon who has to save the life of the millionaire banker, Wellington McMillan. Mitty is calm and cool in this daydream, as he goes to inspect the banker because the other doctors are having trouble. The doctors in th
Walter’s third daydream is about him being on trial for murdering a man named Gregory Fitzhurst. Walter is once again very calm in this daydream. The district attorney is trying to scare Walter by showing him the gun that killed Gregory, but Walter remains cool, and he shows it when he says, “This is my Webley-Vickers 50.80” (1290). Walter’s attorney’s show that Walter couldn’t possibly have killed Gregory because his right arm was in a sling at the time, but Walter disproves this theory by telling the district attorney, “I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand” (1290). One would wonder why Walter would say this when he was off the hook. We soon find out that he did it for a woman; she was the one who really shot Gregory. Walter is awoken out of this daydream by a woman laughing at him. She was laughing because Walter had said, “puppy biscuit” to himself. Walter’s fourth daydream takes him to World War I. Walter shows great courage in this daydream because he plans on doing a suicide bombing run into an ammunition dump by himself. He is talking with a sergeant and they are going over what they should d
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Approximate Word count = 796
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