In James Thurber’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the author’s convulsive focus on the dynamic impacts of the abrupt settings, unreasonably complexes the fluidity of the story by misleading the reader on the current plot of Mitty’s life verses the settings conjured by his imagination in the story. Furthermore his use and examples of location, metaphors and imagery also leaves the description and development of the character to the reader’s imagination which while might make it easier to digest the story, it takes away from the importance and point of the story with the general viewpoint of Mitty’s character would be seen as underdeveloped, dull and childish. The use of and depictions of imagery draw away the attention of the reader by constantly changing the scenery before the reader can fully comprehend what has and will take place later on in the story.
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“‘WE’RE going through!’ The Commander's voice was like thin ice breaking. He wore his full-dress uniform, with the heavily braided white cap pulled down rakishly over one cold gray eye.”(pg 1, paragraph 1)While one of his depictions of the setting is very clear and unique, the author fails to connect the significance of the setting to the reader with the surrounding characters in the book until the very end of the conglomeration of Mitty’s
“‘WE’RE going through!’ The Commander's voice was like thin ice breaking. He wore his full-dress uniform, with the heavily braided white cap pulled down rakishly over one cold gray eye.”(pg 1, paragraph 1)While one of his depictions of the setting is very clear and unique, the author fails to connect the significance of the setting to the reader with the surrounding characters in the book until the very end of the conglomeration of Mitty’s