Secret Life Of Walter Mitty
...st pistol shot in the world’ etc. anything that is more exciting than his life. In this essay, I will analyse Walter Mitty’s fantasies and compare them to Walter Mitty‘s Life. All Walter Mitty’s fantasies involve him being a very, forward, strong willed and brave man. Who doesn’t fear much at all. For example, when Walter Mitty is imagining he is a Captain of a Bomber during WWII. And he is told his crew is scared. He claims he will ‘fly alone’. And that ‘somebody’s got to get that ammunition dump’ even though conditions outside are bad. Walter Mitty obviously wishes he was a brave man. It would even seem Walter Mitty’s fantasies see him not fearing death either. ‘Then with a faint, fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad’. Walter Mitty is certainly a man who regrets what he is, and wishes he was so much more. Walter Mitty’s reality i...