![]() ![]() ![]() His response, meek and ineffectual in real life, flips the balance of power in his fantasies. This casual exercise of control over him, paired with her pointed allusion to his declining physical prowess (“You’re not a young man any longer”), chafes at his sense of autonomy and self-respect, making him feel infantilized (Paragraph 4). Mitty bridles at his wife telling him to buy galoshes to protect his feet from the cold weather, and at her reminders to wear his gloves. ![]() Clothing, in Mitty’s fantasies as well as in his actual life, embodies his sense of identity and self-esteem it is a measure of the power (or lack thereof) he enjoys in his two lives, real and imagined. ![]()
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