1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Sergeu [11.5K]
3 years ago
7

What is the structure of the short story the secret life of Walter Mitty

English
1 answer:
ikadub [295]3 years ago
8 0

This story vascillates between the everyday humdrum life of Water Mitty, the hen-pecked husband sterotype, and the extravagant adventures he lives in his daydreams. Mitty flits in and out of reality, his daydreams concocted by a stream of consciousness association triggered by the sputtering of his car's exhaust pipe, a pair of gloves, and finally a freshly lit cigarette. In such a way this docile "hubby" gets to be the captain of an icebreaker, a famous surgeon, a defendent in a murder trial and finally a fighter pilot taken captive distaining a firing squad. Mitty's imagination is his "second life," which nurtures his deflated ego and helps hims escape the insufferable mediocrity of his existence.

If you do a graph of the plot line of this story, it would look very much like a cardiograph printout, with the steady horizontal line of Mitty's real life intermittantly broken by the highs and lows of his "virtual" existence.

You might be interested in
What are the main elements of a final summary?
Lemur [1.5K]
Restatement

Explanation

Example

Conclusion
4 0
3 years ago
Weeks of bottled-up tensions would be released in a few minutes of orgiastic violence, men screaming and shouting obscenities ab
Naddika [18.5K]
<span>the chaos and frenzy of war.</span>
4 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
The following sentence is in what tense?
Angelina_Jolie [31]
The verb here is "had given"; this is past perfect: it's a perfect tense, because it has a past participle with the -ed ending ("given") and it's the past perfect because  the auxiliary verb is the past form of "have": had.
8 0
3 years ago
Read the following sentence and answer the question.
3241004551 [841]

Answer:

Participle phrase "Gasping for air" adds vivid detail

Explanation:

(It's functioning as an adjective describing the sponge diver)

5 0
3 years ago
What elements are required for a poem to be considered a free verse?
Blababa [14]
“Free verse is an open form of poetry, which in its modern form arose through the French vers libre form. It does not use consistent metre patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech.”
7 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Other questions:
  • How do these excerpts from Dr. Tyson's interview and the preface differ?
    5·2 answers
  • Which of the following types of information can you obtain from reading a map?
    8·2 answers
  • The change that occurred during the great vowel shift affected _____. english short vowels english long vowels
    10·2 answers
  • What social distancing mean and why is important
    9·1 answer
  • Nick tells Gatsby that "you can't repeat the past," but he insists at the end that we're constantly "borne back" into it. Did he
    8·1 answer
  • What is Grendel’s perspective on Hrothgar and his people?
    5·1 answer
  • Select the two sentences that correctly use commas to join independent clauses.
    13·2 answers
  • What is the 11/12+(−71/2)
    5·2 answers
  • What does the word baste mean based on the context clues provided?
    13·1 answer
  • Classify each job as working more with data, people, or things.
    11·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!