![]() This guide refers to the story as it appeared in The Thurber Carnival (Harper and Row), a selection of Thurber’s stories and sketches that first appeared in 1945. These include the siren-song of cultural tropes the emasculation and/or infantilization of modern man marital discord and the ambiguous nature of the imagination. ![]() Along the way, however, Thurber explores numerous themes, which are no less humorous, in his wry treatment, for their essential seriousness. The story’s action, which juxtaposes Mitty’s fantasized exploits with his mundane day-to-day life, generates no significant change or self-reflection in its milquetoast protagonist: The story’s close finds him much the same person as he was at the start. ![]() Unlike most classic fiction, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” portrays little or no character arc. ![]()
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