Mitty always made him drive to a garage to have the chains taken off. A man had had to come out in a wrecking car and unwind them, a young, grinning garageman. Once, he had tried to take his chains off, outside New Milford, and he had got them wound around the axles. The suggestion here is that part of the impetus behind Walter’s need to establish an identity inside his mind is related to at least a certain level of frustration with his relationship to the woman to whom he is married. At least, those women who are not one of the league of various enemies whom Walter always heroically overcomes. In fact, most of the woman who call the inside of Walter’s mind home are pretty. Not for the first time, a woman in in Mitty’s fantasy life is pointedly described in terms of physical attractiveness. Mitty is perfectly pitched because the relatively tame nature of her dominance over her husband simultaneously reveals just how little it takes to control Walter, thus providing tremendous insight to the personalities of both husband and wife.Ī woman’s scream rose above the bedlam and suddenly a lovely, dark-haired girl was in Walter Mitty’s arms. Mitty’s domineering personality intrudes for the first time into Walter’s fantasy life and the reader finally becomes aware of the true content of the story. 545Īfter the opening paragraph describing emergency action taking place on board a Navy hydroplane, Mrs. "Not so fast! You're driving too fast!" said Mrs. By withholding context, this first line gives the reader an experience of this same thrill. For Walter, there really is no dividing line the life inside his head is every bit as real as the life taking place around him outside his imagination at any given point. What Thurber is striving for by doing this is to give the same immediate sense of reality to Walter’s fantasy life as is given to his real life. No context is provided to indicate that the action is anything but the opening line of a story having something to do with the military. The opening line of Thurber’s short story places the reader directly into the middle of an action scene.
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