“The Secret life of Walter Mitty” is a story about a man who called Walter Mitty, he is a day dreamer. He always dreams something heroic, but all the plots in his dreams are opposite from the real life.

                In his dream, he is a hero, a superman. He can do everything, he has super skills. He has a lot of brilliant advantages, such as brave, confident, capable, a great leader and a genius. People in his dream are not as super as he. Everyone needs him when they have trouble, nobody can solve the problem except Walter Mitty himself. He wins the trust of everyone, so that everyone in his dream depends on him a lot. When he was driving a car on the way to Waterbury in Connecticut, he was dreaming that he is flying a plane. His crew meet a fierce hurricane in 20 years. As a commander, he is calm and imperturbable. He expertly commanded his crew to function the machine. Most of them thought they have no chance to go through, but the fantastic commander Walter Mitty created a chance for them to go through, and they successed. He saved all his crew’s life. When he was driving past the hospital on his way to the parking lot, he was dreaming that he is a thinking agile surgeon. He was going to have a operation. A complicated machine, connected to the operation table was broken. No one can fixed it in the East, but super Walter Mitty did it! He solved a hot potato that nobody can hold it. He was a hero.

                No matter how great Walter Mitty is in his dream, he can’t change him in the real life. In the real life, he is just an old man who is dull, clumsy, weak and forgetful.  People around him are smarter and more capable than him. In his dream, people depend on him, in the real life, he depends on other people most time. When he was dreaming he was flying the plane, he was driving his little car. His wife sat beside him and yelled at him because he drove too fast. Under his wife’s command, he couldn’t drive faster than 40. He was not a super commander, he was not that great. He was just an old man who obey wife’s command. When he was dreaming he was a great surgeon, he was parking his car in the parking lot. He even couldn’t park his car in the right position. His car could park in the lot at last, because the parking-lot attendant helped him. He was not a super surgeon who can fix a complicated machine that nobody in the East could fix it. He was not a superman anymore. He needed help from others and people treated him less respect.

                People who like to daydream have a lot of reasons. Maybe the real life can’t make they satisfied. Maybe they relax themselves by dreaming. Maybe they can’t make their dreams come true, so they can only realize the dreams by dreaming. Maybe the society, law or people around them give them too much pressure, so that they can’t be themselves in the real life, they choose to become a day dreamer to be themselves in the dream. I think Walter Mitty daydreams because all the reasons I mentioned above. His is a man with strong heroism, but he can do nothing heroic in the real life. He even forgets the things he wants to buy. The truth proved that he can’t be a hero. Daydreaming is not bad, but always daydream, this is a serious problem.




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