Dementia in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

On the airfoil, it would seem that the myopic story is pretty straightforward. Walter Mitty, a man constantly badgered and biddy pecked upon that he purposely mails into a magic world in his mind just to escape his wife. But lets look deeper past the surface and there we will rein a darker reason for these daydreams to evanesce in his everyday sprightliness. Walters daydreams are a manifestation of his mental illness, dementia, not his require to leave his dull, boring life behind. Walters progression of ferocity in his dreams portray how his cognitive stability is devolving.\nIn the rise his daydream starts strike such(prenominal) more benign. Hes a pilot, a commandant to be precise. But enchantment he is engaging with his strife to get his hydroplane off the Naval Ship, he is also brainish in traffic. mean date his wife is asking him to unbend down because he is driving too fast. Leading straightaway into Hmm? said Walter Mitty. He looked at his wife, in the se at beside him, with surprise astonishment. She seemed grossly unfamiliar, like a strange woman who had emit at him in a crowd. (Thurber). This deals directly with how his mental submit is not what it should be and is diagnostic of dementia. Websters Dictionary defines it as a Deterioration of cerebral faculties, such as memory, concentration, and judgment, resulting from an entire disease or a disorder of the brain. His actions and reactions to these situations show how subtle his grasp on universe existingly is. Directly afterwards Mrs. Mitty says, Its one of your days. I wish youd let Dr. Renshaw look you over (Thurber). This gives eve more credence that Walter is sick(p) and has a physician he sees to monitor his health.\nWalter also crappert seem to repose engaged in real life activities like he should if he was in cheeseparing health. The perfect example is that after dropping off his wife he once once more loses touch with reality while driving, now alone. It co ntinues into a fantasy whe...