Walter Mitty- Walter Mitty is the protagonist of the story. A very wide variety of fantasies take place in Walter’s mind and he often gets lost in them. Because of his daydreams, Mitty is a very forgetful and distracted person. In the story, Walter enters an exit only lane with his car, forgets what items his wife needs him to pick up from the store, and gets easily annoyed and frustrated. He imagines himself as a British air force pilot, an assassin, and even a surgeon. In his daydreams, he is a courageous and heroic man, but in real life, he is just a very lost person.