Comparison of Mitty in real life and in his dreams: "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber.

Life is harsh and unfair and living through it may seem to be an endless torment. Even beloved people can sometimes create our deepest engraves. Therefore surviving through it requires dreaming beyond life and its sufferings. Some people daydream to enter their perfect world and others daydream to escape the bleakness of reality. In the short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber, Walter, the main character, daydreams to escapes his mediocre …

…This is the case of many other people that, as Mitty, have for only option daydreaming. Life smiles to some but buries others. It gives but also takes away and unfortunately some people can't survive only in this callous reality. A necessity for a more perfect existence leads some to suicide and others to live unforgettable and treasured moments in their dreams that give them the strength to fight even harder to survive in reality.