"<span>The North Central Plains—often called the Middle West or Midwest—are the heartland of America. The region lies between the </span>Ohio River<span> and the </span>Great Lakes<span> and stretches to beyond the 95th meridian. Included are eight states: </span>Ohio<span>, </span>Indiana<span>, </span>Illinois<span>, </span>Michigan<span>, </span>Wisconsin<span>, </span>Minnesota<span>, </span>Iowa<span>, and </span>Missouri<span>. The eastern portions of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas are excluded".</span>
One pun is where Fortunato reveals that he is a member of the Freemasons and Montresor says that he too is a "mason." It is a pun because he does not mean a "Freemason"; he means a mason, a craftsman who does brickwork, the kind Montresor plans to perform on Fortunato to seal him in the catacombs forever.
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Part A) A: Sometimes the pain of a loss can be soothed by a gift of new life.
Part B) B: "Tonight for the first time, with her infant, Waterlily, asleep beside her, she was again completely happy."
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Walter's wife, known in the story as "Mrs. Mitty," treats Walter like an absent-minded child. She is overbearing, condescending, and critical towards Walter. But she is also Walter's link to the real world. While Walter is off in his own imagination, it is his wife or other people who bring him back to reality. This relationship of Walter's imagination (his escape from reality) and his wife's nagging (in efforts to bring him back to reality) is an uncertain "chicken and the egg" situation. We, readers, don't know if Walter's imagination is what caused his wife to become the practical, reality-based wife that she is or if Walter uses his imagination as an escape from his overbearing wife. Even if we knew which came first (Walter being absent-minded or his wife being condescending), it is just as likely that over the course of their marriage, Walter's and his wife's behaviors fed off of each other; and therefore, who started the whole cycle is somewhat irrelevant.
At the end of the story, when Mrs. Mitty returns from her appointment, Walter says, "Things close in." This is noted as a vague statement but could be interpreted to illustrate how Walter feels about the real world. He feels trapped and therefore resorts to fantasies in order to escape from that trapped feeling. One could sympathize with Mrs. Mitty, knowing that Walter is always absent-minded to the point of being careless. On the other hand, one could sympathize with Walter. Even when Walter tells her he was thinking, a valid excuse, she dismisses it as a fever:
"I was thinking," said Walter Mitty. "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.
