The setting of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is
Waterbury (undoubtedly Connecticut, although it is not mentioned specifically in the
story). Among the conflicts that arise during Walter's time in the city (and not in his
fantasies):
- Walter's wife nags him for driving
too fast.
"You were up to fifty-five... You know I don't
like to go more than forty." She seemed grossly unfamiliar, like a strange woman who had
yelled at him in a
crowd.
- Next, she
reminds him to get overshoes and to put on his
gloves.
"I don't need overshoes," said Mitty... "We've
been all through that," she said, getting out of the car. "You're not a young man any
longer." He raced the engine a little. "Why don't you wear your gloves? Have you lost
your gloves?" Walter Mitty reached in a pocket and brought out the gloves. He put them
on, but after she had turned and gone into the building and he had driven on to a red
light, he took them off
again.
- A cop
ordered Walter to "Pick it up" when he was slow to proceed through a green
light. - A parking lot attendant next growled at Walter,
warning him to "Look out for that Buick!" Walter "muttered" at him and tried to back out
of the exit, but the attendant demanded to do it
himself. - When Walter next met up with his wife, she
complained about him hiding in the hotel lobby where they had agreed to
meet. - When Walter tried to defend himself, telling her
"Does it ever occur to you that I am sometimes
thinking?" She looked at him. "I'm going to take your temperature when I get you home,"
she said.
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