Examine two logical reasons while Walter Mitty always escapes into the world of fantasy in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty."

To answer this question it is important to examine Walter
Mitty's "real" life, that ironically seems to be less real than his day dreams. One
reason becomes swiftly clear: he is married to an overbearing, dominating woman, who
appears to be particularly irritating. Note how Mitty is shaken from his first daydream
that starts off the story:

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"Not so fast! You're driving too fast!" said Mrs.
Mitty, "What are you driving so fast
for?"

She has the habit of
repeating phrases whilst she is complaining and that adds to her irritation. Note how
Mitty turns to her and finds her "grossly unfamiliar." It is clear that the "silence" in
which Mitty responds to his wife's complaints is the normal state of affairs, and as we
go through the story, we see just how dominated he is by his nagging wife as she bosses
him around.

However, it is also clear that in his real life
he is a weak and innefectual character. Note how he says that he is unable to take the
snow chains off of his car, and the people that come to help him make fun of him. He
fantasises about putting his arm in a sling so that they will not do this again. He is
also unable to remember what his wife tells him to buy, and as he reflects, "he was
always getting something wrong." It is only when Mitty, in his dream, punches the
District Attorney and calls him a "miserable cur" that he remembers he had to buy puppy
biscuits. It is the intense banality of his life combined with his profoundly weak
character that gives him such a desire to find release in his
daydreams.