ANALYSIS

Analysis



Analysis

Introduction

In this research paper, we are going to compare and contrast the following two literary works "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (Thurber) and 'The Story of an Hour" (Chopin).

Thesis statement:

Someone attitude is the most important thing to change the life.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

According to the Sigmund Freud, there are there components in the human psyche. These three components are id, ego and superego. Id can be considered as the pleasure seeking part of the psyche ego is defined as the real part and the superego is taken as the moral part of the human psyche.

In this short story, James Turber has used these three components of the human psyche to develop his fictional characters. In this short story, the main character is trying to maintain balance between his real life and his fantasy world.

Thurber is trying to show that the main character of the story had a dual personality. There are a huge difference between his dreams and his real life. In the story, it can be seen that Mitty has a strong character in his dreams. He is a leader in his dreams, he is a confidence man, but in reality he is not that a strong man. He is not confidence and a milktast in his real life.

Walter Mitty always tried to make fantasies situation in his mind that never would have been happen to him in reality. In this short story, it has been seen that Walter Mitty often made adventures situation in his mind because he lacks it in his own real life.

Walter Mitty dreams of an adventurous lifestyle because obviously he lacks adventure in his own life. It has been seen that, Mitty created all the fantasies that he lacked them in his own real life. In his dreams has was an independent leader because in real life he was a dependent husband. He has to relies on his wife decision in most of the case. His wife made most important decision of his life. Lacking confidence in his real life made him to create all the fantasies about being a confident leader in a very unnatural situation. Most of the situations would never happen to him in any point of life. In his real life, he was a befuddled husband who did not have confidence and his wife must organize his work.

Lack of adventure in his real life made him to dream about an adventures life. Walter Mitty drove on toward in silence, the roaring of the SN202 through the worst storm in twenty years of Navy flying fading in the remote, intimate airways of his mind. (Thurber 73) Anyone can easily conclude that twenty years of flying for the Navy would never happen to Mr. Witty's life.

A woman's scream rose above the bedlam, and suddenly a lovely, dark haired girl was in Walter Mitty's arms. The only woman it would seem to the reader that would appear to ever had been a part of his life ...