When a newsboy shouts about the Waterbury Trial, Walter imagines himself in a courtroom. When Mitty passes a hospital, this sparks his surgeon fantasy. The "pocketa-pocketa" sound that Mitty hears in several fantasies is likely the sound of his running car driving along the road. It's not simply a matter of jumping back and forth from reality to imagination each fantasy is spurred by some specific sound or word or event in the real world. Author James Thurber does a beautiful job of closely interweaving Mitty's fantasies with his real life.
To compensate for his failings in the real world, Mitty creates an entire "secret life" for himself: a series of fantasies in which he is a powerful, decisive man admired by those around him – everything he is not in reality. He's not a great driver, and people always seem to be either yelling or laughing at him for one blunder or another.
In real life, Walter Mitty isn't anything special.
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