

She feels that there must be something wrong with Walter, requiring a doctor's examination, or else that he is simply not mature enough. She takes the day to get her hair done before meeting her husband at a hotel. Mitty is Walter, demanding, hen-pecking wife, a woman who is confused and annoyed by her husband's absentmindedness.


His personas are: hydroplane commander, star surgeon, crack shot on trial, WWI captain, and condemned man on the firing line. Since he is constantly met with frustration and embarrassment in his real, everyday life, he takes to imagining himself in various colorful roles, earning the respect and adoration of others. The protagonist of our story, Walter Mitty is by turns a hen-pecked husband, an inept man, and a heroic daydreamer.
