Walter seems to shift in and out of reality at least three
times in this piece. To me, he tends to float into that world of illusion and
imagination as triggered by his wife.
In the beginning he
is piloting a Navy hydroplane that is in trouble. There seems to be a crew working
around him that is dependent on his skills for their safety. He believes he is saving
the day.
His wife rudely interrupts his dream and he is
back to a dead-beat husband in no time with the chore of escorting his wife to get her
hair done.
Before too long, he is in the world of
imagination again and becomes a famous doctor tasked with operating on one of
Roosevelt's closest millionaire friends.
Traffic in the
parking lot captures the reality of his attention again and then before we know it, he
is lost as a hot-shot lawyer.
After tackling the worst of
the worst, Mitty is struck by the need to pick up his wife, after a bout back in the
military, he gets her, and then the rain makes him feel as if he is in front of a firing
squad.
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