Sunday, July 28, 2013

What sort of person is Walter Mitty in terms of his relationship with his wife, and how does his personality differ in his two worlds?Include...

In reality, Walter Mitty is a clumsy, absent-minded
henpecked middle aged man. In his dreams, he is brave, commanding, debonair,
resourceful, talented, respected and revered. It is te contrast between these two
personas which highlights the tragedy of Walter Mitty’s
existence.


In reality, Walter is chastised by his wife for
driving too fast, and is ridiculed by the parking attendant for being unable to park his
car. Whilst concocting a plan to disguise his inability to fit snow chains to his car,
Mitty imagines himself to be a crack shot and a
hero.-


readability="6">

…suddenly a lovely, dark-haired girl was in
Walter Mitty’s arms.



He is
immediately ridiculed in the real world for talking to
himself-



A
woman who was passing
laughed.



His wife challenges
Mitt’s dreaminess as a symptom of sickness and decline, and the great ideas he hatches
in his daydreams contrast with her criticism:


readability="7">

“Does it ever occur to you that sometimes I am
thinking?” She looked at him. “I’m going to take your temperature when I get you home,”
she said.


No comments:

Post a Comment

What is the meaning of the 4th stanza of Eliot's Preludes, especially the lines "I am moved by fancies...Infinitely suffering thing".

A century old this year, T.S. Eliot's Preludes raises the curtain on his great modernist masterpieces, The Love...