James Thurber is the author of “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”. He feels inferior to his wife throughout his marriage. Learn to express these feelings by writing stories and illustrating cartoons. This is a way for him to escape everyday life with his wife. Critics have recognized the Mitty motif, which is used to describe his two main themes in many of his major works such as "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (Morsberger 66). “The Secret Life of Walter Witty” is one of James Thurber's best-known stories (Morsberger 44). Its themes are evident throughout the story. Furthermore, it is able to come to life through the story by expressing the imagination. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” explores major themes of gender disharmony, male escape routines and life as a married couple. In Mitty's motif, there are two themes, and the first is "...the domination of the American male by the American female" (Morsberger 66). In James Thurber's stories women prevail over men (La Blanc, Michael and Wrath 40). Women no longer want to be inferior to men. In "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", Mitty's wife bosses him around. who in return allows his wife to take power (“Men and Masculinity”). Previous research states that “Thurber embraces the type of masculinity that Walter idealizes in his fantasy” (“Men and Masculinity”). , a husband who doesn't care and a forgetful man ("Men and Masculinity"). , but as a great… medium… that, “through this story, Thurber rejects typical romantic ideals of masculinity and instead promotes the everyday kind of masculinity that Walter embodies in real life” (“Men and Masculinity” ). James Thurber condemned the foundation of marriage in this Walter Mitty story (“Marriage”). In conclusion, Mitty's motifs are the themes that include: disharmony between the sexes and escape of males from routine. Another theme that James Thurber includes in his work is the life of a married couple. Thurber made many great short films in his life, but "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is his most popular work. He learned to live his life through his stories, expressing his feelings in his writings. Many people have been inspired by his writings. James Thurber left his mark on the world and will forever be known and never forgotten.