Discusses these two themes in “The Open Boat” (Crane), “Sonny’s Blues (Baldwin), The Rocking-Horse Winner (Lawrence) and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Thurber).
Describes the element of realism of fancy/imagination in four classic short stories: Stephen Crane’s The Open Boat, James Baldwin’s Sonny’s Blues,” D.H. Lawrence’s The Rocking-Horse Winner, and James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.”