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

Daydreams can inspire a person with unpredictable dreams which can change a person. In the book The Secret Life of Walter Mitty a “short story” by James Thurber which, is about a man named Walter Mitty who daydreams. Walter Mitty has a humdrum everyday life and daydreams about becoming a heroic person. Walter Mitty a man of action who daydreams and exhibits many traits, as well as virtues. Walter Mitty’s thoughts consistently shift from fantasy to reality. Walter Mitty shows inspiration when daydreaming of becoming a heroic person. Inspiration can bring one’s life a desire to dream and to work hard and set a goal for themselves. Walter Mitty is inspired on other people’s jobs and doesn’t really enjoy the job he has. “In the operating room,

Both the characters are really meek and fearful. The image of Walter Mitty by others is that of a meek husband who is dominated by his wife and is not at all adventurous and seriously lacks motives and goal in his life. The way Walter perceives himself to be in his dream world is entirely different from what he is in his real life. While professor Arthur fears the destruction of the world. Declaring himself the world 's 'first weapon with a conscience ', he flees and goes into hiding. Even Though he destroys the arms and ammunitions, he is afraid that he is mortal and human life is transient. He fears that at some point of time, again the world will turn towards war like situations.

At the end of the story, on page 7, Walter is waiting for his wife to finish shopping at the drugstore, he imagines being executed. " …he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful,....” This could be understood to mean that Walter is not happy with his relationship with Mrs. Mitty or his life. She does not make him happy, and he will continue to be unhappy because he is too timid to do anything about it. Mrs. Mitty makes things worse for Walter because she believes his daydreams are an illness.

    In the movie the movie of Walter Mitty they had more places for the setting, while in the short story the setting only takes place in a city named Waterbury where all they do is run errands. It had basically explained how they were in Waterbury but different places within the city. Due to this the short story didn't have many characters. However in the movie Walter was in the office and traveled many places. He was trying to track down Sean O’Connell to set negative 25 which was the cover photo. Some of the places Walter traveled included Greenland, Iceland, and Afghanistan, while he did these things it showed him that he is an important person. Every time Walter traveled he would always have some type of daydream, an example is when he was on the way to the volcano and he fell due to a daydream he had. Therefore the daydreams that Walter has affects what he gets done and i say that the movie adds much more detail than the short story.

     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 talking about,? (Hansberry 85). Walter has big ideals, but his methods of achieving his goals and ideals are somewhat irrational. Walter can be regarded as more concerned with becoming self-employed without really thinking about the consequences, which may be imposed on his family. Later in play, Walter learns that he needs to set his dreams aside for the sake of the

All the sporadic thoughts he has in his head are telling him to do something that makes his life more interesting, worth meaning. In the short story, it is never fully fulfilled in reality because his thought and wife limit him, but in the movie, the missing film pieces pushes him. Performing great and rather life-risking and dangerous tasks that have adrenaline written all over them was what Walter Mitty was all about. There was a beautiful quote that was brought up more than once during the movie: “To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, to draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life.”

Walter's frustration festers and his anger turns inward towards his family who, in Walters eyes, do not understand him. Walter's family members do understand him and they also want to amass material dreams, but Walter's family members know that it is going to take work to get there.

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 film begins introducing the protagonist, Walter Mitty, inside the mundane adult life. We see him as a logical realist we expect all grown-ups to be. Through Walter, Stiller is conveying that without dreams there is no desire to stand out and will never find ease within life. At first, Walter has a low-risk and stable life, forfeiting his personal happiness and dreams. We see his meekness when he attempts to muster the courage to send a wink to his work crush, Cheryl, through eHarmony.

Mrs. Mitty just went about her way and did not pay her husband any mind. Walter escapes his life everyday life and bugging wife by day dreaming throughout his day. He will zone out with being a Commander, a doctor, a witness in court, a captain and a criminal. This was his only way of living with his wife.

In the story, The Strange Life of Walter Mitty, Walter Mitty struggles with an inferiority complex that has been developed from the belief that people were looking down on him. Even though it may be implied in the story that the people that Walter Mitty had interactions with were all looking down on him it is never truely stated therefore it is believed that Walter Mitty was just paranoid and assumed this. Since his inferiority complex and character prevents him from talking back and assuming a role of dominance he copes with this reality by daydreaming. The issue with his daydreaming is that he complelety leaves reality and puts whatever task he was doing on autopilot. In the first paragraph, Walter Mitty shows us one of his secret lives — these secret lives are more of a fantasy — as a navy captain while he battles a hurricane with his crew.

First of all, throughout the story, Walter Mitty has exceedingly vivid dreams, which involve different characters, and contains elements that greatly resemble that of a novel. This trait has been credited a symptom of Maladaptive dreaming by many of those who wrote of the condition (1)(2)(4). One may say that he is just a normal, but imaginative dreamer, but daydreaming in this way, in excess, is very abnormal indeed. The daydreams which Walter Mitty goes through are also reasonably realistic, such as fighting in a war, and curing a patient, which make it all the more strange (3). Walter Mitty is not a normal dreamer.

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.

Firstly, daydream Walter Mitty in the short story was a heroic individual who saved lives in the operating room (Thurber Para 6) or a pilot who was taking down the Luftwaffe (Thurber Para 13). This is an example of Walter Mittys desire to satisfy his thirst for adventure and give himself a sense of self-worth. Secondly, daydream Walter Mitty possess the character trait of bravery for different reasons. Walter is Brave in his dreams but not in the 1950’s sense of his equivalent in the short story. In the movie, Walter dreams of ridiculing his boss and ultimately beating him in a fight and speaking to the women he has expressed interest in (Stiller, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty). This is more of a hero to himself, benefitting not the masses, but the individual, being himself. He does act heroically, as a superhuman who jumps in to burning buildings to save a dog, but this exemplifies Walter trying to impress a woman, not better society as a whole. For these reasons, Walter Mitty’s day dream bravery is ultimately a tool to give himself a sense of