“Somebody’s got to get that ammunition dump,” said Mitty.
Another story where Mitty is having to perform a brave task under pressure. This makes me think that Mitty needs sine action in his life.
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bombing planes and of ruined streets.
Trigger to another day dream
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right arm in a sling on the night of the fourteenth of July.”
I don't think these are flashback any more. Due to the fact that he has on sling that he was fishing he had
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Waterbury trial
This triggered another flash back, now he is a lawyer.
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In a way he hated these weekly trips to town—he was always getting something wrong
His mental state makes him forgetful, this could be due to his old age.
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“Back it up, Mac! Look out for that Buick!
it is not safe for this man to be driving!
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here is no one in the East who knows how to fix it
In the flashbacks Walter has experienced so far he is performing a hard task under pressure.
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In the operating room there were whispered introductions:
After passing the hospital, the setting has now changed to an operating room, where Walter is a doctor. It seems as if whatever he passes tiggers these flash backs.
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You’re not a young man any longer.
This suggest that Walter is a older man. He may some sort of mental illness that causes the flashbacks.
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Navy flying fading in the remote, intimate airways of his mind
This suggest that the Mr.Mitty was having a flash back or day dreaming about the event.
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Hmm?” said Walter Mitty. He looked at his wife, in the seat beside him, with shocked astonishment
The transition of setting and characters suggest that the previous parts of the story were a flashback.
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“The Old Man’ll get us through,” they said to one another. “The Old Man ain’t afraid of Hell!”
The crew has a lot of faith in the Commander, he shows characteristics of fearlessness
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“We can’t make it, sir. It’s spoiling for a hurricane, if you ask
The setting of the story appears to be on some sort of vessel traveling through bad weather.
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And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!”
I think this statement from the author shows that she was the girl trapped in the wall paper, that creeps in the day and is free at night. She has to creep in the day because she can't express herself due to John and Jennie being around. Going back into the wallpaper symbolized her being controlled and contained by John.
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But I know she was studying that pattern, and I am determined that nobody shall find it out but myself!
this is a hint the paper is wall paper the author has pulled from he wall because she is going crazy over the pattern.
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The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.
The pattern in the wall is something the author is struggling to overcome despite what John says.
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Can you not trust me as a physician when I tell you so?”
Using his title to manipulate the author
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“What is it, little girl?”
Why does he refer to as little girl? This creates a new dynamic between John and the author.
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John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so.
Reasons the author feels her opinion is inferior to John.
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I can stand it so much easier than a baby, you see.
The author is constantly convincing herself that John is right
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ow I wish he would let me go and make a visit to Cousin Henry and Julia.
Its strange that she needs permission from her husband to go see family
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I had a friend who was in his hands once, and she says he is just like John and my brother, only more so!
This suggest that Weir Mitchell is also a physician
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windows are barred for little children
Its weird she is a room that has windows barred.
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I must not let her find me writing.
what Is up with the writing.
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But he is right enough about the beds and windows and things. It is as airy and comfortable a room as any one need wish, and, of course, I would not be so silly as to make him uncomfortable just for a whim. I’m really getting quite fond of the big room, all but that horrid paper.
He has once again invalded her feels and convinced her that he was right.
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that nothing was worse for a nervous patient than to give way to such fancies.
He refers to Marry as a patient, aren't they Married?
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It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby
What baby! Is it her baby and who is Marry. A caretaker?
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John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious.
this suggest that the author is a patient
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There comes John, and I must put this away,—he hates to have me write a word.
This suggest that the author could be in danger
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I have a schedule prescription for each hour in the day; he takes all care from me, and so I feel basely ungrateful not to value it more.
I feel as if John treats her as a patient. This could be foreshadowing that John is her doctor and she is crazy, think he is her husband.
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He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.
John is in complete control.
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ot room for two beds
Why do you need two beds?
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but John would not hear of it.
John again not taking into consideration what his wife wants.
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But John says if I feel so I shall neglect proper self-control; so I take pains to control myself,—before him, at least,—and that makes me very tired.
It seems as if John is very closed minded. Instead of allowing his wife to express herself he tells its a lack of self control.
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I even said so to John one moonlight evening, but he said what I felt was a draught, and shut the window
with their conflicting personalities I believe that John often dismisses what his wife says.
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So I will let it alone and talk about the house.
Her house is an escape from her sickness and the pressures she feels in dealing with her sickness.
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My brother is also a physician, and also of high standing, and he says the same thing.
Ok if her brother says the same things then she might be crazy.
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And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do?
I get this sense that the husband tries to suppress his wife struggles. Maybe because he doesn't want people to look at them crazy?
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John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.
The Narrators husband is someone who beliefs are something rooted in science
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You see, he does not believe I am sick!
suggest that the narrator has some sort of mental illness, that her husband John does not really believe in.
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Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?
This suggest that something is off about where the are staying. Framing the story.
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