Walter Mitty Comparison

” The 18-year-old girl dreams of attending college, and in her family, “no one in her family goes to college (“Where Dreams Come From”, stanza 2, line 7).” She wants to have a proper education and become a figure in the real world. Her family is sitting on the sidelines of civilization and she is sick of that fact. That household is aware of this; nonetheless, she still is not allowed to leave. Walter Mitty is no different. His wife is domineering and infuriating, as she constantly admonishes him and tells him he is doing everything incorrect. For instance, when Mitty accidentally speed up his Buick, his wife screeched at him that, “he was driving too fast (“Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, page 1, paragraph 2),” when he “was up to fifty-five km/hr. while knowing her comfort-level was forty-five km/hr.” She prohibits this poor soul from living his life by controlling his every-being than he does of his own body. He cannot accomplish his dream. His desire is not similar to the girl’s. He yearns of being heroic and the center of attention. However, he is the exact opposite and his wife frequently pushes him off the cliff of confidence, where his spirit is shattered. Not only that, he often questions her, “ If it ever occurs to her that he is sometimes thinking.” And she rubs it

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.

Walter Mitty is a fictional character in both the book and film. He can be relatable to hopeless and shy people in the book. But, Mitty can also be relatable to others that want to be heard, and have hopes and dreams. In James Thurber’s story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” Walter Mitty is forgetful and easily controlled, while Mitty in the film is outgoing and optimistic. Walter is a forgetful person in the short story.

In James Thurber's “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” the movie and short story have much different external conflicts. During the short story, Walter's wife is always nagging at him and making his life difficult, while in the movie and it Walter's boss and co-workers who are giving him a hard time.Walter experiences his wife complaining while on their way into town, ¨Not so fast! You're driving too fast...What are you driving so fast for¨ (Thurber 1). He is not paying attention because he is daydreaming about more exciting things than what is going on in his life. In the movie Walter is very busy and nervous so he messes up an assignment and he goes into a daydream. Walter was sitting in the elevator

    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.

Walter Mitty is forced to adjust because of her wife’s preferences,showing him as limited in the actions he takes as a cause of the relationship. Walter Mitty also considers himself to be helpless when it comes to his wife’s choices. Towards the end of the story, as Walter Mitty

Life is about finding yourself, each other, and being true to one’s self. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is an extremely original and creative story written by James Thurber. The movie, The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, starring Ben Stiller, conveys a daydreamer escaping his typical life by disappearing into a realm of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. In both the movie and the book, the title character retreats into fantasy as an escape from his mundane reality because in the real world, he is ordinary, insecure, and passive. In the short story, Walter

Are you ever struck by a sudden daydream or suddenly start to zone out into your thoughts? In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” written by James Thurber, Walter experiences many thoughts and daydreams that depict his feelings and problems in life. There are also many different discussion topics such as conflicts, daydreams, and character traits.

“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.” is a key quote from Ben Stiller’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Though there are many similarities between the original short story and the film version of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, such as Walter being treated with a lack of respect, there are also discrepancies such as the different portrayals of the character of Walter Mitty.

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Mrs.Mitty drives Walter insane and triggers his dreams. Walter can not stand his wife and in response ignores her through his fantasies. In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, Mrs.Mitty finds Walter in the hotel lobby in a daze while reading a news paper and ask him “Why do you have to hide in this old chair?”(Thurber 47). Walter without realizing has once again found himself in a dream.

Walter Mitty’s fantasies consist of him being the commander of an airplane, world renown surgeon, accused of being a murder, captain of a bomber, and a man facing a firing squad. In the first daydream, Walter is a leader. He is Commander Mitty, a pilot of a Navy hydroplane and in charge of Lieutenant Berg and other crewmen. Walter is also brave for being in navy while also choosing a manly career. In his second daydream, Walter is super important.

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is a short story by James Thurber, is a story of man who goes through an ordinary life fantasizing about a secret life where everything is great for him. In his fantasies Walter Mitty is everything he isn’t in real life. Mitty uses these fantasies to forget the things he dislikes about his reality. Walter’s life isn’t anything special and he goes into his fantasies to escape from the fact that he is insecure/shy, he’s being bossed around by his wife, and he can’t do simple tasks.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is by the author James Thurber. This story is illustrating his feelings and how he feels by writing stories and by illustrating cartoons. He feels inferior to his wife and because of the marriage, he always wants to get away from her and for this reason he escapes his life and goes into daydreaming. The theme that is most evident in this short story and correlates with each other is success and failure and this is presented to us through each of his five daydreams in the story. Even though Walter Mitty is a different individual than most, he is most alive and like other people, when he is expressing his true self and imagination by daydreaming.

It was not until Walter talked back to his wife at the end (5) that readers see the only concern she presents is of worry whenever Mitty does not act in his usual and expected behavior. One can see that because they do not have much in common helps readers see why they have problems in their marriage There is many more intext context that contribute to Walter and his wife in this story; nevertheless, there are many more clues that the reader can conclude when looking on how these two characters think about themselves and each other.