Mitty also fantasizes about being the captain of an ice-breaker, a defendant on trial for murder, and then a war pilot. In this last daydream, he imagines that he has been captured by the enemy and is facing with dignity, even distain, a firing squad. As he flicks away his cigarette and refuses the blindfold, he pictures himself a a hero, "Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last."
The alter-ego of the henpecked husband in overdrive!
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