De Vries, Peter. "James Thurber: The Comic Prufrock," in Thurber' A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Charles S. Holmes, Prentice-Hall, 1974.

Elias, Robert H. "James Thurber: The Primitive, the Innocent, and the Individual," in Thurber: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Charles S. Holmes, Prentice-Hall, 1974, pp. 87-100.

Elias explores how Thurber's heroes, including Walter Mitty, preserve their individuality in a hostile world.