The Reasons For Walter Mitty's Daydream

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for?'" Here the reader sees the sharp contrast between the daydream and real life.
In the daydream, Mitty has the full respect and admiration of the passengers of his imaginary hydroplane. In real life, his only passenger, his wife, scolds him for not driving properly. This contrast between the competent man of the daydream and the incompetent man of real life is repeated over and over. Each repetition shows the difference between Mitty's real and imagined lives.

Mitty is aware of his real-life incompetence and shows it when he recalls the story of the snow chains (Sundell 1285). In that story Mitty remembers a time when he tried to take chains off his tires and ended up tangling them on the axles of the car. He had to call a garage mechanic to take off the chains for him, and he was embarrassed. Carl Sundell believes that this story shows that Mitty has a low level of mechanical ability (1285). Sundell explains that "if a man cannot reach the real world through ...

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