The secret life of Walter Mitty

Walter lives in a dream world. Walter Mitty’s densely populated fantasy world to introduce the reader to a number of minor characters who, taken together, create an almost postmodern collective crazy-quilt stitching together the multiple facets of his psyche that remains hidden from the world around him. Mrs. Mitty is not particularly overbearing and she certainly is not a shrewish type of wife given to wielding dominance over a more submissive husband. Therein lies the universality, of course. Just as millions of men over the decades have seen themselves in Walter, so likely have millions of woman seen themselves in Mrs. Mitty.