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Everybody has dreams. Dreams focus on several different emotions, thoughts, feelings, and desires. When people have dreams they can be confused with reality. It is normal for people to have dreams but sometimes dreams can take on a more harmful nature. Walter Mitty is a daydreamer, but he becomes confused with reality when lost in his wild dreams. Although Walter seems conscience, he is arguably unconscious trapped inside delusions and hallucinations that control his mind and body. After reading, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", I believe Walters chronic hallucinative and delusional state of mind suggest that he suffers from the mental disease, Schizophrenia. ... People suffering from this disease cannot tell the difference between reality and delusion. ... com) Walter Mitty suffers from uncontrollable hallucinations that suppress him from separating reality from the imaginary and destroy his ability to keep his concentration.
Walter Mitty is an older man who lives just outside of the city with his wife. ... The relationship between Walter Mitty and his wife is that of an odd one. ... Walter always zones off into his delusional fantasies where he completely disregards anything going on around him. ... Walter Mitty suffered from many of the classic symptoms of schizophrenia. I believe that Walter Mitty fits into one specific category of schizophrenia. ... Mitty suffers from is called "Grandiose Type Schizophrenia: which includes symptoms such as delusions of inflated worth, power, knowledge, identity, or special relationship to a deity or famous person. ... People with this specific type share the same sort of symptoms as those of Walter Mitty, the main character in this story. ... After reading this definition, I came to the conclusion that this is what Walter Mitty may suffer from. ... Walter Mitty hallucinates that he is a person of inflated worth and power, vast knowledge, great identity, and fame.
This story begins with Walter Mitty and his wife driving in their car to town.
Approximate Word count = 1548
Approximate Pages = 6.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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