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    “theSecretLifeofWalterMitty”读后感5700字    “the Secret Life of WalterMitty”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 can't 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 dream that admired by others came true.Walter’s fourth daydream came as he waited his wife and picked up an old copy of Liberty, reading “Can Germany Conquer the World Through the Air?” and imagined himself as a Royal Air Force pilot, fighting Germany and volunteering for a daring, secret suicide mission to bomb an ammunition dump. He piloted a plane normally piloted by two people.The closing scene came when Walter was standing a wall, smoking. He imagined himself facing a firing-squad, “inscrutable to the last.” Having himself executed by a firing squad could suggest that he has decided to end his excessive daydreaming and attempt to resolve the problems that cause his daydreams. Among his morally acceptable options are (1) to see a psychiatrist, (2) to take action on his own (such as becoming more assertive), and (3) separating from his wife.This novel is concerned with the theme, Escapism. Henpecked Mitty deals with his everyday frustrations by escaping into daydreams. Mitty is a submissive, accommodating chap. But when he makes himself the hero of his daydreams, he becomes a veritable demigod. His daydreams help him sustain his ego against the nitpicking of his wife.Symbols are frequently used in this short novel. The car, the overshoes, the gloves, and the tire chains: These all symbolizeMrs. Mitty's control over bumbling Walter. She orders him to buy overshoes, wear gloves, and slow down from 55 to 40. In addition, she requires him to take his car to a garage to have the snow chains on his tires removed. Policeman, parking attendant and garage man symbolize the control that the world exerts over Walter. War and guns symbolize the strong masculinity that Mitty lacks.Through reading the novel, we can come to know that Walter is a man who always escape from the reality and become indulged into his fantastic dreams. In his fantasy, he scared nothing whereas he protested feebly at demands and behaved cautiously. There is a sharp contrast between the hero Mitty who received admirations in fantasy and the real one who had some unpleasant interactions with people.In my opinion, this novel deals with a matter of the difference between the reality and the ideal. Sometimes, when we cannot get what we want or we cannot be what we want to be, daydreaming becomes a useful way for us to fulfill our goals and satisfy our demands. Mitty may long for respect and admiration from others, but the reality destroys his hope and desire. That is why, maybe, Mitty resorted to daydreaming to satisfy himself. Isn’t it a sad thing for our ordinary people? We have many things to do every day. We have to execute the assignments ordered by others, though we don’t want to do that. We have no other way to get the relief of our stress and the daydream becomes the only method.Even an ordinary man can become an extraordinary hero—with the help of his imagination. And who is to say that the se。