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In James Thurber's classic short story " The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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Walter Mitty

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• Other Thurber works (e.g., “The Catbird Seat”) and short stories about imaginative escape.
• Critical essays on Thurber and American humor.

"To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of LIFE." Other Thurber works (e

Walter Mitty

: A mild-mannered, middle-aged man who is "inscrutable" in his mind but bumbling in reality.

• Author: James Thurber.
• First published: The New Yorker, March 18, 1939; later included in Thurber’s short-story collections.
• Historical/cultural context: pre–World War II America, rise of modernist short fiction and single-character sketches.