The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (Thurber, 1939) is a short story by James Thurber. The most famous of Thurber’s stories, it first appeared in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939. This short story deals with a vague and mild-mannered man who drives into Waterbury, Connecticut and his wife for their regular weekly shopping and his wife’s visit to the beauty parlor. During this time he has five heroic daydream episodes, ranging from being a pilot in the U.S. Navy flying boat to being on a secret suicide mission to bomb an ammunition dump. In the following paragraphs I will tell why this story captured my interest,

Do you ever have a moment where you just sit there and daydream? If you ask me it can be pretty dangerous if you do it at the wrong time! So you should watch what you do so you won't be like Walter Mitty. In the short story of “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber there are a lot of differences and very little similarities, in my opinion i say the movie was way better.

This was the first time Walter had branched out of his comfort zone and done something “outrageous”. It was the beginning of Walter’s change. Sean O’Connell was also a contributing factor in Walter’s change. Although Walter and Sean had never met face-to-face, Walter had a connection with Sean he did not have with many other people. Knowing that the negative was a gift from Sean, and that it was to be the last cover of “Life Magazine”, Walter was determined to find it. The life threatening actions that Walter had taken was justified by the fact that he wanted to secure his job, but he himself knew that he would never do something that risky for a job so uneventful and dull. Walter showed a great amount of perseverance when dealing with the struggles throughout his journey in escaping his previous life. Although, Walter may have never had hope in himself to overcome those obstacles, throughout his journey he realized that everyone has obstacles in their lives that they must overcome. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, reminds the audience that although your life maybe be dull, and uneventful that there is room to change into someone who is adventurous and does not limit themselves from their fullest

In Lorraine's Hansberry A Raisin In The Sun. Walter wants to make money to support his family. He wants money because he thinks it makes him a “man”. How ever when his money is stolen, Walter’s perceptions of manhood shifts from valuing wealth and power to valuing family and pride.

By the end of the film, Walter has fully grown from an unadventurous, stock character to an experienced, dynamic character having a unique identity. In the conclusion, Walter is shown updating his dating profile with his recent adventures and experiences. While these may attract women, Walter still remains homeless, unemployed, and poor; regardless his dire situation, Walter is finally happy with his own life and no longer feels the urge to daydream to escape reality. Through this, Stiller conveys that one’s position is irrelevant; through experiencing reality first-hand, an individual gains new insights into the world as well as into themselves just as Walter Mitty did. Through real-life experiences, one can learn a tremendous amount about themselves and in-turn, this leads them to a life in which they are happier with themselves or

In the first, he went to South Chicago to stare at the steel mills and he stopped by at the Green Hat. On the second, he went to Wisconsin and he went to the Green Hat. On the last day, he walked around the neighborhood and again he took a pit stop at the Green Hat (Hansberry 105). Finally on the fourth day, he obtains what he wants and he stops being shameless. This shamelessness has really dropped a boulder in Walter’s path of fulfilling his dreams.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a film which revolves around an ordinary ineffectual individual who often tunes in and out of the existent world and the imaginative. Walter is portrayed as a character with a tedious and mundane life. Although we see numerous theme that co-exists in the film the most prevalent and concrete theme, is identity. The individual experience that Walter confronts really shapes his identity and his monotonous life throughout the story. Immediately at the start of the film, the spectator gets a perception that Water is a mediocre run of the mill type of guy this is insinuated by the monochromatic colors and the black and white orderly decor of his apartment.

Whimsically and beautifully produced and acted, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, directed and starring Ben Stiller, is the perfect movie to relate to our own lives. Like countless people on this planet, Walter Mitty (Stiller) works his 9 to 5 every single day in his life, stuck in an endless cycle. Everyone that knows Mitty is aware of when he “zones out” - in some situations, he pictures himself making a wild choice, since he was never brave enough to make those illusions a reality. As the negative assets manager in the photography department, Mitty works at LIFE magazine and has a crush on his co-worker, Cheryl (Kristen Wiig). The magazine is beginning to fall apart, as corporate men take over the company to transition to online.

Walter Mitty lived a boring life, until he met the girl who would push him to the limit, and change it all.

Walter Mitty is a renowned surgeon, grizzled army sergeant, and deadly assassin that, in his words, could kill a man with any known make of gun from three hundred feet out with his left hand. He commands respect wherever he goes. The only catch is that this is all in his head. Walter Mitty is abnormally average and lackluster, but his daydreams transform the world around him into exciting scenes straight from a blockbuster movie. Walter views his own wife as a distraction from his beloved daydreams, and he has disdain for all of the other equally average people around him in his daily life.

This quote has a big impact because it shows that Walter Mitty at the end changed. We see that he changed because he has some of that bad sass attitude towards his wife Mrs. Mitty at the end by the store. Walter Mitty’s appearance is really odd, it states in the text from the outside source, “Who lives in dreams has become an archetypal figure of the ineffectual, weak-willed, bumbling male in american culture.” the impact of this quote states that Walter Mitty is not really a people person but he's just a person who goes through life trying to find epic missions to keep his life interesting.

Walter Mitty is a man past his prime and is experiencing some of the most humdrum moments of his reality but the way he experiences it is starkly different. A snippet of his life is described by the James Thurber in the short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty; Walter experiences changes in reality with such vividness that often times the reader finds it difficult to discern reality and imagination. It seems that Walter never loses the tether to reality and for this reason he has been diagnosed with a combination of lucid dreaming and low-level dissociative disorder.

Everything he is not in reality. Many of us experience a feeling of not having control in our lives at one point or another, and Thurber uses this to manipulate us into sympathizing with Walter. We all have a Mrs. Mitty in our

The secret life of Walter Mitty This essay will be discussing how the line between reality and fantasy is blurred in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and what this teaches the audience about living in the moment. This essay will discuss the ‘question’ by comparing and pointing out the difference of Walter in his daydreams and in real life. Walter Mitty, a middle-aged man around his 30 or 40’s who breaks away from his normal life by daydreaming and having these fantasies about himself doing amazing things to other people. This movie is a combination of fantasy and real life fiction both begin and conclude Walter Mitty’s fantasies and or daydreams.

One second he's a pilot next second he's being told what to do by his constantly nagging wife, this is a reoccurring situation as Walter zones in and out from reality, but these aren't just loose thoughts or fantasies, these are extraordinary worlds he thinks of and it is like no other. The secret Life of Walter by James Thurber is a perfectly portrayed story by Thurber, he effectively goes in depth on the thoughts that’s run through Walters head, Thurber illustrates to the audience the contrast between Walters external and internal relationships Walter has with those in his environment. In “the secret life of Walter Mitty” James Thurber uses dramatic irony and imagery to convey versions of reality Mitty zones out to escape his poor rather