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Walter Mity And The Girls In Their Summer Dresses

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Sick relationships come in all forms, shapes, sizes, fictional or nonfictional. Controlling and abuse in all forms is the most common of the sickest relationships. Mental and verbal abuse is common in short stories just like the characters in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and “The Girls in their Summer Dresses”. The character Walter Mitty from the short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is shown in an intense mentally abusive relationship with his wife Mrs. Mitty. This became clear that Walter Mitty was being abused when Mrs. Mitty interrupted one of his day dreams with “Not so fast! You’re driving too fast!” “What are you driving so fast for?” It was shown that Mr. Mitty did not stand up to his wife very often but when he does talk back to her. Mrs. Mitty says “Remember to get those overshoes while I’m having my hair done” Mr. Mitty replies with “I don’t need overshoes”. Mrs. Mitty just went about her way and did not pay her husband any mind. Walter escapes his life everyday life and bugging wife by day dreaming throughout his day. He will zone out with being a Commander, a doctor, a witness in court, a captain and a criminal. This was his only way of living with his wife. …show more content…

In this story there is Frances the abused and Michael the abuser. In the story Frances and Michael are walking across Eighth Street as Frances says “Look out..You’ll break your neck.”, as Michael laughs his wife off. Later on in the story Frances tells her husband “You always look at other women, everywhere. Every damned place we go.” Michael replied with “No darling I look at everything, god gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.” This is a common distraction to the truth from a typical person at fault trying to divert from the

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