While Walter Mitty is a pitiable character, he is yet one
who rises from the ashes of his henpecked life with his imagination. So, there is
something wrily humorous about him, yet heroic at the same time. To this day, when
someone who is an unknown, ordinary, quiet and retreating, invents something or makes a
success of his/her life, newcasters will call this rise to fame, "a real Walter Mitty
Story."
So, at the end of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
the repressed Walter does fail at his attempts toward independence and respect as his
wife dismisses his declaration, "Does it ever occur to you that I am sometimes
thinking?" with "I am going to take your temperature when I get you home." However, as
"that faint, fleeting smile plays about his lips," Walter, again in fantasy, succeeds in
his dreams as he departs with his wife,
proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the
Undefeated, inscrutable to the
last.
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