James Thurber’s short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” satirizes the early 20th century male and the human propensity for escapism. The story contrasts Mitty’s humdrum reality with the hypermasculine fantasies of his “secret life” of imagination. More @Wikipedia
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