While she gets her hair done, he goes about town running different errands she has tasked him with but all the while he lives another life in his imagination, inhabiting such colorful characters as a dauntless hydroplane commander, an infamous crack shot, a WWI captain, and others.
Thurber's story follows Walter Mitty, a married man on a day trip to Waterbury, Connecticut with his wife. Everybody experiences those moments throughout the day when a word or a sound or a scent or memory stimulates a brief escape from reality into that realm of the imagination where all things are possible. No matter how famous, rich and successful one becomes, each and every human carries around with them a secret fantasy life. The secret to the enduring popularity of what is perhaps James Thurber’s most famous short story, “ The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"-published first in The New Yorker on Maand then reprinted in Thurber's 1942 collection My World - and Welcome to It-lies in a certain universality.
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