“the_Secret_Life_of_Walter_Mitty”读后感.doc

“the Secret Life of Walter Mitty”读后感 The short novel tells a story of an aging man, Walter Mitty driving to town for a regular shopping with his wife, Mrs. Mitty. Walter is inept at many things. He is hen-pecked man, an absent-minded driver；He cant handle simple mechanical tasks, and he forgets things easily. What makes Walter exceptional is his imagination. In this trip, Walter had five heroic daydreams, and each of his fantasies is inspired by some detail of Mitty’s mundane surroundings. The short novel begins with Walter’s first daydream. He imagined himself as a Commander of a Navy hydroplane. He commanded his crew to increase the speed to go through in the sea in a hurricane. When he had this daydream, he was driving toward Waterbury at a fast speed. He regarded going to Waterbury as a difficult task, because his wife ordered him to go shopping while she was having her hair done, and it was hard to make her satisfied. Then Mr. Mitty was drawn back to reality by Mrs. Mitty’s complaint that he was driving too fast, which indicates that his driving was what led to the daydream. After Walter put down his wife who was going to have her hair done, he drove to go shopping. He was forced by both a policeman and his wife to put on his gloves in this period. Then he also passed a hospital. These things involving gloves and the hospital made him begin his second daydream. Walter turned a brilliant surgeon who was performing an important surgery. Everyone needed him to take over the operation. After that, he was fooled by a parking-lot attendant, for his clumsy skill of parking. When he attempted to remember what his wife told him to buy and heard a newsboy shouting about “the Waterbury Trial”, his third daydream began. He dreamed himself as a crack shot that not only can shot others uses right hand, but also uses his left hand. This fantasy was aroused maybe, because he was not satisfied with his parking skill and hated being laughed by others. So in this daydream, his dr