The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
by James Thurber
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One of the main themes in the story is the compensatory function of the imagination. Walter Mitty has a "secret life" not simply because he is an imaginative fellow, but because he is an unhappy man. Though we begin the story in his imagination...
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• passivity
• daydreaming
• forgetfulness
• bad driving
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Generally each dream represents some kind of Frustrated/Repressed Desire that Walter has. Check out Frustrated/Repressed Desire below:
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