Read the excerpt from "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty."

The Commander . . . walked over and twisted a row of complicated dials. "Switch on No. 8 auxiliary!" he shouted. "Switch on No. 8 auxiliary!" repeated Lieutenant Berg. "Full strength in No. 3 turret!" shouted the Commander. "Full strength in No. 3 turret!" The crew, bending to their various tasks in the huge, hurtling eight-engined Navy hydroplane, looked at each other and grinned. "The Old Man’ll get us through," they said to one another. . . .

"Not so fast! You’re driving too fast!" said Mrs. Mitty. "What are you driving so fast for?"

"Hmm?" said Walter Mitty. He looked at his wife, in the seat beside him, with shocked astonishment. She seemed grossly unfamiliar, like a strange woman who had yelled at him in a crowd.
How does the contrast between Mitty's view of himself and the reader's view of Mitty affect the story in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"?

It makes Mitty seem humble because he imagines himself as an average man, while readers see him as a daring adventurer.
It adds pathos to the story because Mitty imagines himself still serving in the Navy, while the reader sees him as suffering from battle fatigue.
It adds humor to the story because Mitty imagines himself as a brave hero, while readers see him as meek and henpecked.
It fuels the reader's outrage because Mitty imagines himself as a safe and careful driver, while the reader sees him as deliberately reckless.

I'm not positive but I believe it's "It adds humor to the story because Mitty imagines himself as a brave hero, while readers see him as meek and henpecked."

Explanation:

He's acting as a Captain managing a ship in a cresus; Making him see himself as an admirable hero, where as the reader knows it's just a fantasy he sees making them mark him as henpecked and meek. Henpecked; continually criticize and give orders to (His wife) Meek; quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on; submissive

mcarc09 mcarc09 · Answer 2 · 2021-10-28T10:53:25+02:00

The contrast between Mitty's view of himself and and the reader's view of Mitty affect the story in the following way:

C. It adds humor to the story because Mitty imagines himself as a brave hero, while readers see him as meek and henpecked.

"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is a short story by James Thurber.

Mitty is an ordinary man married to a bossy wife. There is nothing special about him - his appearance and skills are pretty common.

However, Mitty is an avid daydreamer. And his dreams are wild!

He always imagines himself living an adventure and being the hero, the rescuer of everyone else.

Mitty daydreams to escape his ordinary life.

Whenever Mitty's imagination is interrupted, the reader gets to compare the real, meek Mitty to the hero he imagines himself to be.

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