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Although ** The Life of Walter Mitty **takes place in Waterbury, Conneticut, Mitty daydreams of scenarios that are simply not real: however, the daydreams are the alternate settings within this short story. Below, the following 'daydreams' are listed: The Daydreams of Mitty
 * Walter daydreams of being the pilot of an U.S. Navy flyng boat within a thunderous storm
 * Secondly, Mitty dreams of being a wondrous surgeon
 * Thirdly, Walter dreams up of being an assasin that is testifying in a courtroom
 * Fourthly, he pictures himself as a Royal Air Force pilot volunterring for a secret suicide mission to bomb an ammunition dump
 * Lastly, as the story ends, Walter imagines himself facing a firing squad

Where Mitty really was
 * Before the daydreams, Walter was driving his wife to the beauty parlor
 * First daydream is due to Mrs. Mitty's complaint that Mitty is "driving too fast"
 * Second daydream is due to Mitty taking off and putting on his glones, while driving past a hospital
 * Third daydream is due to Mitty's attempt at remembering what his wife told him to buy; also a newspaper vendor using news of a trial to sell his papers
 * Fourth daydream is due to Mitty looking at "an old copy of Liberty", which contained images of war
 * Fifth daydream is due to Mitty standing against a wall, smoking