![]() ![]() ![]() Thurber’s character was a textbook non-entity – a failure at all those activities that define masculinity. However, the real Mitty is not condemned to death but to life. In his imagination he stands bravely in front of a firing squad. The story concludes with him leaning against a wall while his spouse shops in a drug store. While these thoughts are flashing through his mind the real Mitty is driving his wife to the hair-dresser, parking the car and buying a packet of dog food. ![]() In quick succession he is a renowned surgeon saving the life of an important patient a crack shot being cross-examined in court, and a daredevil pilot on a suicide mission. One minute Mitty is steering an “eight-engined Navy hydroplane” through a fearsome storm. ![]() Walter Mitty entered the world in 1939, in James Thurber’s New Yorker short story about an aging, hen-pecked husband who escapes into his daydreams. ![]()
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