"All our dreams come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." Walt E. Disney. Dreaming is something that everyone does, child and adult alike. Not everybody is the same. There are never going to be two people that are identical. Some people talk to themselves and some people daydream. Mitty is who he is and he should not be pitied for that. I feel as though he should be looked out for, but not pitied. He gets himself in danger such as when he speeds up in his car because of daydreaming. I believe that he needs family and good, loving friends around him to keep him safe. He should never quit dreaming though. We all do it.
Mitty is not unusual because all people daydream. “People Daydream Almost Half the Day, Harvard Study Finds” is an
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He is not handicapped in anyway, unless you are going to try and consider daydreaming a handicap. He can drive a car, go shopping, and carry on with life just as well as anyone else would be able to. He has a wife. She may be a shrew, but nonetheless, he has a wife. She may nag at him for forgetting, but everyone forgets things. In the “Forgetfulness is a Tool of the Brain”, article from the Daily News, it talks about how forgetting things is not at all bad because it means that your brain is functioning the way that it should. It is suppressing memories that it feels irrelevant and only remembering the important ones. So forgetting is just something all people do. Something that is average, just like Mitty.
After much thought about Mitty, I still feel as though he is just an average person. He may daydream more vividly than others, but in the end he can still talk, walk, and function just like everyone else can. He daydreams just as much as everyone else, studies show, and his forgetfulness is just showing how his brain functions like an average brain, so, overall, Mitty is just like the everyday
Basically, people always seem to be either yelling or laughing at him for one mistake or another. This makes him create his own life and have daydreams in which he is the opposite of what he is in reality. On their way to town, he had his first daydream as is a brave military commander piloting a hydroplane, but his wife interrupts by yelling at him, saying: “You’re driving too fast!”. (Thurber,1939) When she insists on him to make an appointment with his physician, he becomes a famous surgeon at work, until a parking-lot attendant calls his attention to come back to reality. Mitty was pissed and thought: “they think they know everything”. (Thurber,1939) Mitty’s third daydream is of being the defendant in a trial, and he is woken by a mental association with dog biscuits, which his wife asked him to buy. At that moment he gets bothered because, “A woman who was passing laughed. "He said 'Puppy biscuit,'" she said to her companion. "That man said 'Puppy biscuit' to himself."” (Thurber,1939) As he waits for his wife to finish at the hairdresser, he daydreams of being a British pilot willing to sacrifice his life for his country, and he is again woken by his wife, who was looking for him. In a moment Walter asked his wife “Does it ever occur to you that I am sometimes thinking?”
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber is about the trip Walter Mitty takes into town with his wife. During this trip, Mitty experiences many different daydreams that seek to help him escape from the monotony of his life. Each of these fantasies is brought about by some aspect of Mitty’s life. While driving too fast into town Mitty dreams of being the commander of a Navy hydroplane, flying through a storm. After dropping off his wife at the salon, Mitty fantasizes about being a miracle surgeon while driving to the store. Continuing with his errands Mitty has trouble remembering the last item on his list and ends up fantasizing about being on trial for a murder. After he finished his shopping, Mitty goes into a hotel to wait for
People with dementia have symptoms that can vary throughout the week or even day. They will have times when they perform well, and others when they will have more problems. Fatigue is the biggest enemy of the person with memory loss. People with brain diseases tire easily because they must concentrate so hard all the time. For many, the late afternoon and early evening hours can be the most challenging due to fatigue, a condition often referred to as "sundowning."
First, Walter Mitty has many detailed daydreams. For example, “Life is about courage and going into the unknown, into another world so you can develop who you really are” (Cheryl Melhoff). This quote explains that a person must go into the unknown, into another world where you can face your obstacles and develop who you really are. In the movie, it shows that it’s a better medium than the short story. Mainly, the daydreams in the movie are more enjoyable because you can actually see them. Also, “When the flock of birds formed Cheryl’s face, it made Walter Mitty think of her.” Someone watching the movie could feel his emotions. Maybe, if this daydream were in the short story, a person could not have felt the feelings and emotions he felt in the movie. Not only that, but also Walter Mitty has to decide if he’s going to go with the pilot to Iceland and find Sean. Then, “He daydreams that Cheryl is at the restaurant and she is playing the guitar and she sings him a song that encourages him to go to Iceland.” He didn’t want to go at first but then thinking about Cheryl, it symbolizes how he feels her support and makes him change his mind and go to Iceland.
Daydreams are a defense mechanism of the psyche to escape a high stress reality. In “The Things They Carried” Tim O’Brien uses daydreams as a manifestation of emotional baggage in First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, whom has become obsessed with Martha, a girl with whom he corresponds. “On occasion he would yell at his men to spread out the column, to keep their eyes open, but then he would slip away into
“Does it ever occur to you that I am sometimes thinking?” She looked at him. “I’m going to take your temperature when I get you home,” she said(James thurber, Secret life of Walter Mitty). In the short story Walter’s wife thinks he’s sick or that something is wrong with him. He is daydreaming while driving, Walter has realized he isn’t satisfied with his life. He prefers to daydream to make his life better. Going in for a routine check up, becomes Walter dreaming about being a high profile doctor. Having lost his identity Walter is just going through the motions with his life. Getting shoes, dropping of his wife and getting a health check up has become mundane, his imagination has become the best thing about his life.
The film “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, which was converted to a movie from a short story, talks about the negative consequences of daydreaming. Walter, who is the protagonist of the movie, daydreams in his daily life frequently. He imagines extraordinary events and loses his connection with the world. This habit of Walter Mitty leads him into a couple of bad consequences. His colleagues make fun of him while Walter Mitty was daydreaming. For instance, his boss says, “Do you think, if I hit him with a paper clip, would he move?” (Stiller, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) and throws a paper clip to him. This movie showed me that people cannot think properly and their relation with the real world disappears as they daydream. That’s why, they cannot notice what is going on around them, which is a negative
On lazy days when I'm bored, I daydream a lot. Just staring into space or look at the sky and the clouds or whatever that catches my intrest. I imagine various things, from the future, to the past. Sometimes I think of of the possibility of having a brother or sister since I am the only child in my house. I think of other people and their relationships with their siblings
It is clear that James Thurber’s main character, “Walter Mitty,” does have serious problems. At the beginning of the story, he is either fantasizing or hallucinating that he is a hero on a Navy seaplane. However, he is driving too fast in rainy weather. He is frightening
Everyone in the world has had at least one dream in their lifetime. Most people do not think much about the dreams that they have, unless they are recurring. Dreaming is “a series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during REM sleep.” Most people today wake up from a dream or nightmare saying, “thank god that was a dream,” or “too bad that was just a dream.” Many times these dreams or nightmares have more meaning than we may think. If people took more time to consider the meaning behind the dreams they have, then dream interpretation could be used as a means to help resolve issues in our awaken lives, including helping to
If he goes out at night he puts on sunglasses to make the light less bright, so that the light does not scare him. Having light sensitivity and getting freighted by normal every day things such has shower water and baths, are very common for people with dementia. Things that were once similar are now not. For example, if the person with dementia still lives at home they may not be able t recognize their own house and things inside. If asked to go somewhere in the house they may ask how to get to that room. Sleeping at night can also become something they cannot do, they tend to get up and wander about. Doors are also particularly intriguing, once Chris found the door at night and was found wandering the streets at 4am in his pajamas. A cop was nice enough to bring him back home, but once home he still did not recognize his own house or
He demonstrates poor grammar and low reading skills, he is able to do simple arithmetic calculations, can think abstractly, and can follow simple instructions. He is typically oriented to where she is at, whom she is with, and what time it is although he was slightly disoriented when we spoke about his friends and parents. No noticeable deficits in his ability to recall information from various points in time were observed. Overall, he shows the ability to think rationally and make good judgments in regards to decision making.
Walter Mitty uses his fantasies to avoid his wife. Ferguson points out that Mr.Mitty’s dreams usually occur during or after one of his dreams(433). Walter falls into his dreams to escape his wife even though sometimes he
Why do we dream? I see dreaming as benefiting humans by helping our conscious and subconscious minds shake hands and come to an agreement, so to speak. Our brains operate on conscious, subconscious and unconscious levels, and I believe there is a strong link between our subconscious minds and our dreams. Perhaps the information we store in our subconscious minds during waking hours manifest into these hallucinatory pictures while we sleep. The part of our brain which operates on a conscious level is significantly diminished when we are asleep, which gives the subconscious part of our brain more energy to process what it’s learned or stored.
that one is dreaming and that the dream is coming from the self. The notion that