![]() ![]() ![]() This decisive moment in the story proves the assumption that women are not powerless in their relationships with men. She claims with a sort of condemnation: “Remember to get those overshoes while I’m having my hair done” (Thumber 8). It is a point at which the female and male parties are contradicting each other following personal intentions. He even dares not to do so, for taking over his wife, he could face a new obstacle in relationships. They say that Mitty is weak in his moral background, for he cannot explain to his wife the way things go around him. Walter Mitty is a victim of female pretenses concerning life prospects in the marital reality. Here comes the more social character of the story as opposed to its moral side. The way the story is narrated provides a cross-relational discourse between Mitty’s inner world of dreaming and the real essence of dying from enduring the tension from his wife. However, the tragedy of Mitty is in the fact that he encounters misunderstanding and gross indifference on the part of his wife. ![]()
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