Secret life of Walter Mitty
Lisa Marie Herd
Thesis
The author's text structure helps to define Walter Mitty as timid and passive with a small amount of courage.
Walter Mitty lets his wife control him.
"' You know i don't like to go more than forty. you were up to fifty five.'"
"' Remember to get those overshoes while I'm having my hair done.''
Walter Mitty doesn't stand up for himself.
"'Leave her sit there'...'I'll put her away.' Mitty got out of the car."
" The next time, he thought, I'll wear my right arm in a sling."
Walter Mity stands up to his wife at the end of the story
"' I was thinking'"
"'Does it ever occur to you that I am sometimes thinking.'"
conclusion
The structure of the story portrays Walter Mitty as a man who is timid and passive with a small amount of courage