Similarities of 2 men farquar and mitty
...ang to the machine, which was now going pocketa-pocketa-queep-pocketa-queep. He began fingering delicately a row of glistering dials. Give me a fountain pen he snapped. He pulled a faulty piston out of the machine and inserted the pen in place. That will hold for ten minutes he said. (73) That was Walter Mitty daydreaming about him being someone and somewhere better then he was. He was totally under the power of his wife. His helpless self was forced to pretend things were better by daydreaming. Just like Peyton Farquar, that’s all they could do. About to die because he was hung over a bridge. That leaves you limited on what you have to do. He stands at the gate of his own home. All is as he left it, and all bright and beautiful in the morning sunshine. He must have traveled the entire night. As he pushes open the gate and passes up the wide white walk, he sees a flutter of female garments: his wife looking fresh cool and sweet, steps down from the veranda to met him. How beautiful she is. He sprang forward with extended arms. (574) Those were Farquar’s last thoughts before he was hung. Of course his situation was a lot worse then Mittys, but the principal is still the same. Two men needing to escape their problem by fantasizing about something that makes them feel better. One difference of the two men is how they came to this point. Walter Mitty a man who is lured in by his wife, and Farquar, a man who is challenged by authority. He was told, “any civilian caught interfering with the railroad, its bridges, tunnels or trains will be summarily hanged”(570). He attempted this, and the consequences were exactly a...