![]() As they drive past a hospital he suddenly turns into a wonderful surgeon performing the trickiest of operations to save the life of his patient. There is a brief description of this episode of heroism. ![]() He goes into his imagination and sees himself as a pilot of a US Navy flying boat in a storm. Walter doesn’t pay much attention to the real world, but instead lives in a dreamlike state of heroic antics.Īs they drive into town his wife tells him to quit driving so quickly. The story begins in Connecticut with Walter driving his wife into the city to do the shopping and have her hair done. How often do we do that? I was a great day dreamer especially as I sat in school classes and it never really disappeared much into adulthood. It is a story about a man who day dreamed his life away. ![]() The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was first published in The New Yorker magazine March 18, 1939. He was best known for short stories and cartoons published in the New Yorker. He was a cartoonist, humorist, journalist, playwright, children’s book author and wit. He was born in 1894, the same year my maternal grandparents were born though they were a few months older than him. I have read him off and on for years and he had such a creative, humorous imagination. ![]() ![]() It was written by the wonderful author James Thurber. It’s first inception was not a film though two films have been made of this story, neither kept to the plot. For people who read a lot they will probably know this was an important short story in From WikipediaĪmerican Literature. ![]()
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