Walter Mitty Comparison

As Walter's dreams become bigger and bigger, he seems to neglect the 'smaller' things such as his family. "Here I am a giant surrounded by ants! Ants who can't even understand what the giant is

First here are the similarities of the short story and the movie. For example Charlie got the same intelligence improving surgery in the short story and in the movie. Algernon, a white mouse, had the same intelligence improving surgery. This surgery also occurred in both the movie and the short story.

     The characters are totally different in the two versions. The short story’s main characters are a family; a husband, a wife, and two children. The film’s characters are a woman and a man, and the man’s mother and younger sister.

There are many similarities and some minor differences between the movie, directed by Claude Chabrol, and the short story it is based off of, written by Guy de Maupassant. The plot, setting, and characters are all highly similar in both the story and the film. In both, the plot follows the same scheme, it is set in Paris in the 1880’s, and all of the main characters are the same. The major difference that stood out to me is how these aspects are displayed at the beginning of the narrative.

Many people assume that the book and movie of the same story are always very similar, but they are incorrect. In my comparison of the short story Rikki-tikki-tavi by Rudyard Kipling and the movie of Rikki-tikki-tavi, I found them to be rather different. There were many minor differences, but the three main topics in the short story that clearly differentiate it from the movie are the setting, the character traits, and the use of humor.

Not only is courage an important life skill, it is also needed in growing up. The quotation, “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are” by E.E. Cummings is illustrated in both the novel Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey and the film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty [2013] directed by Ben Stiller. Throughout the novel Jasper Jones, Charlie Buckin, the main character learns how to become courageous through his role models, Jasper Jones and author Mark Twain. Similarly, Walter Mitty, the main character in the film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, learns about courage through his role model, Sean O’Connell and lady friend, Cheryl Melhoff. Both of these texts have shaped my own ideas of what courage is and how it is needed to grow up

One similarity that exists in both the short story and the film is Walter being treated with disrespect. For example, in the short story, Walter takes off his gloves while behind the wheel, and a cop snaps at him. Similarly, in the film, Walter is treated with disrespect when his coworker, Ted Hendricks, and he are in an elevator, and Walter daydreams that Ted Hendricks tried to take his toy and it turned into an epic battle. Walter comes back into reality and sees that Ted and his other coworkers are laughing as they cannot seem to get his attention. Therefore, in both version of the story, Walter is treated with disrespect in a similar way.

The movie version and short story version of “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” are very different. The plot of the short story is bland and unclear. The last sentence of the short story, “Then, with that faint, fleeting smile playing around his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last.”, ends in a daydream leaving the reader feeling confused as to what should happen next. This proves how the author doesn't really give a clear ending to the short story. On the other hand, the movie had a clear ending and conclusion. The movie ends with Walter going on a date with Sherrill (which he liked), that ultimately lead him to do something adventurous which ends his terrible daydreams. As you can tell the movie has a clear ending and solution to the problem. The movie really exaggerates his bland life and boring job. For example, Walter says in the movie “I haven't really been anywhere noteworthy or mentionable.” The movie also had more action, but the movie was longer so that’s to be expected. Overall

Walter Mitty daydreams. Walter doesn’t have a wife but he’s crushing on a co-worker. Walter is considered a “loser” because he doesn’t get out much. But he’s like that in both the movie and the book. He has barely to no friends.

Some similarities and differences of “The secret life of Walter Mitty” between the book and movie are very interesting. Some examples of similarities would be that in both the book and movie are he lives a boring life, another to go along with that is that he goes into his daydreams to escape from that boring life he lives. Some differences are in the story he has a wife, he doesn’t go on a huge quest, he has way different and less daydreams in the short story. In the movie he is searching for a wife on some dating website, at his job in the movie he gets bossed around by the 3 new guys who are coming into the magazine company to take over and tell everyone what they should be doing.

A comparison of what seems to be two completely different stories may not make sense, but they may have a lot in common if you review it carefully! In this case, we are comparing James Thurber's “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace¨. In James Thurber’s story, Walter Mitty is simply a normal man going down the road with his wife, although in his mind, in which he is daydreaming, he is captaining a hydroplane through a hurricane, while it breaks down. When woken from his dream, he was going 55 mph on an open road with his wife who was terrified by the speed he was traveling at. In Guy de Maupassant's story, the main character is Madame Loisel. She is married to a small clerk, lives in a small shabby apartment, and doesn’t have many friends to go out and be social with. One day her husband comes home and has a special invitation to a social event but she fears she can’t go due to the fact that she doesn’t have any jewels or a nice dress to wear. She buys a new dress, and borrows a necklace from her friend for the event. When the event is over she find that she has lost this “expensive” necklace. Her and her husband end up paying for a new one, only

The short story The secret life of Walter Mitty is by James Thurber, which tells a story about a man named Walter Mitty who is forgetful and daydreams throughout his day. Many literary devices play huge part of this short story in developing Walter Mitty's character. The tone of the story is mostly action and happy tone since Mitty is just daydreaming about; driving a "Navy hydroplane", being a "doctor" at a hospital, being a killer, and being shot in front of a firing squad. A theme of this story is the making of oneself identity based on the environment around because Walter Mitty made many versions of himself. All his personality were made after something in the real world triggered

As I was given the film Amelie, I chose the film The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty to make a comparison. Amelie and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty used different approaches of achieving their own newfound love in their own ways. In brief, Amelie had found joy in making a change to the lives of the people around her for the better. Whilst, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty took an adventure to find Sean O’Connell to save his position in his job. Therefore, each film take various motifs to show their approach in love.

Written by James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, is the story of Walter Mitty’s day in the city daydreaming of many scenarios of him being a hero and having power and fame. Between each of his daydreams, he is interrupted repeatedly by the real life in a rude fashion by his wife and other characters in the city, ending his daydreams. In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, many interpret that many of the supporting characters look down on Walter Mitty. In his daydreams, Mr. Mitty is seen as being superior to others and well respected by people, showing him to be dominant over all other characters both in his daydreams and the real life.

The whole story depicts how Walter changed from a man who knows what he wants but lacks the drive and determination to a man who brings courage to bear challenges in life. In addition, the choice of the background song which is Space Oddity sung by David Bowie suits well with the theme of the movie as it is also a song about being courage and going to unknown with harmonious tone. Overall, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a good inspirational movie that is easy to understand. Personally, I would like to recommend this movie to the people who are lack of determination and spirit so that they can go beyond far from what themselves are at this