It was certainly difficult to keep him from taking over the feature . -Schulz

The anthropomorphic beagle who sleeps on top of his dog house and who “possesses a Walter Mitty complex” is the strip’s silent observer, residing in imagination, “blissfully ignorant of life’s rough truths.” While the children of the strip, like the little people that they are, struggle with the day-to-day trials of childhood,

Snoopy lives in a world of fantasy, where he can be a great American novelist even if his first line of typewritten text begins with “It was a dark and stormy night.”

Snoopy might be the embodiment of happier, though ignorant times. He is a dog for a reason, and as a dog he does not have to deal with people problems, living in the fantasy childhood we wish we could remember: no school, sleeping outdoors(but never being cold), donning goggles and fighting the Red Baron in the skies over battle-scarred Europe, and becoming Joe Cool with the help of a pair of shades.