![]() ![]() ![]() The power in this relationship is heavily tipped in Mrs Mitty’s favour Walter has absolutely no power in his marriage. His dreams are completely different to reality where in fact he is powerless against his wife. All of these are positions of power and respect where he is obeyed. He is ‘The Commander’, ‘The lieutenant’, and ‘The Captain. Mrs Mitty nit-picks everything Walter does the overshoes, snow chains, and how fast he’s driving are all examples of how she wants to control Walter, forcing him to escape into fantasies of him being a man of power. Even near the end of the text where he asks her if it ever occurred to her that he thinks sometimes, her reaction is to simply brush it off and brings up him being ill again and how she’ll be checking his temperature at home. Walter is criticised being forgetful but when she is forgets something Mitty says nothing and its very unlikely he will. Mitty’s responses to her are weak retorts of protests, where he eventually gives in to her orders. Another example from the text is how she keeps insisting he goes to the doctor and how she says “It’s one of your days” already assuming something is wrong with him. Whilst Walter is escaping her by daydreaming, she brings him crashing back to reality by barking “Not so fast! At him, while he is driving. An example from the text is her first line of dialogue. The story is set during the great depression of the 1930s in northern United States, Mitty and his wife are having a trip into town Throughout the text we see the power disbalance between Mitty and his wife, who is overbearing, controlling, she berates him and treats him like absent. James Thurber constructed Walter Mitty as a weak, passive, mild-mannered and, an ineffectual man who has no power in his marital relationship. ![]()
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