Mrs. Mitty: “We’ve been all through that,” she said, getting out of the car. “You’re not a young man any longer.” He raced the engine a little. “Why don’t you wear your gloves? Have you lost your gloves?”

Character traits of Mrs. Mitty

Walter Mitty: Once he had tried to take his chains off [the tires], outside New Milford, and

he had got them wound around the axles. A man had had to come out in a wrecking car

and unwind them, a young, grinning garageman. Since then Mrs. Mitty always made him

drive to a garage to have the chains taken off. The next time, he thought, I’ll wear my right

arm in a sling; they won’t grin at me then.

Character traits of Walter Mitty

Walter Mitty: A woman’s scream rose above the bedlam and suddenly a lovely, dark-haired girl was in Walter Mitty’s arms. The District Attorney struck at her savagely. Without rising from his chair, Mitty let the man have it on the point of the chin. “You miserable cur!” ...

Character traits of Walter Mitty

Mrs. Mitty and Walter Mitty: “Did you get the what’s-its-name? The puppy biscuit? What’s

in that box?” “Overshoes,” said Mitty. “Couldn’t you have put them on in the store?” “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.

Character traits of Mrs. Mitty and Walter Mitty

Mrs. Mitty scolds her husband for driving too fast and for not wearing his gloves. He does what she tells him to do.

Walter Mitty daydreams, imagining that he is an important surgeon who repairs a piece of medical equipment and saves a patient’s life.

Walter Mitty tells his wife that he does not need overshoes, but his wife insists that he does. He buys the overshoes.

Walter Mitty daydreams, imagining that he is a heroic air force captain about to fly a two-

man bomber into heavy combat by himself.

Walter Mitty daydreams, imagining himself heroically facing a firing squad—“proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last.”