2014年4月10日木曜日

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY by James Thurber

  This is a humorous story. It depicts Walter Mitty’s heroic and manly daydreams. He dreams the dreams where he is a pilot of a U.S. Navy, a magnificent surgeon, a deadly assassin, a Royal Air Force pilot, and a man facing a firing squad. Since he is a henpecked husband, he retreats into quite different worlds for balance.
  The ways he flees into or returns to reality from a different world is unique: when Mitty is trying to fly the hydroplane through the storm as a commander, his wife pulls him back into reality by saying, “Not so fast!”; when he wears a glove, he becomes a surgeon; when he sinks down into the chair, he is a brave pilot who walks to the door of the dugout; when he smokes, he faces the firing squad. The most funny part is when he remembers to buy ‘Puppy biscuit’ which is triggered by his words “You miserable cur.” Everyman has daydreams.
  If you exaggerate them, you can create such a humorous story like this story.

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