The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

“Secret life of Walter Mitty” By James Thurber is about success versus failure. In reality, Walter is a failure who doesn’t do anything right. In Walter’s daydreams, he is in charge of his life, he is well known, and others look up to him. When reading “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber it becomes clear that Walter Mitty in reality is not successful which is different from who he is in his daydreams, where he is in control. In reality, Walter Mitty is not successful. He always thinks

March 2015 Literary Analysis of “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber is a short story in the limited omniscient point of view. The title of the story suggests that not only does Walter Mitty isolate himself from reality by fantasizing, but that his dreams are a secret from the world. While Mrs. Mitty plays the antagonist, Walter Mitty takes part in being the protagonist with his primary personal figure. Mittys life does not contain drastic changes, “In

Imagination and “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" appears to be a simple story of old Walter Mitty going on a trip into town with his controlling wife, Mrs. Mitty. Walter is incompetent at many things and forgets things easily. His imagination is what makes him special. The author, Thurber, tells the story in omniscient, third-person point of view. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” sees escape through fantasy as a significant element of

Day Dreaming In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Thurber uses day dreams to portray that Walter Mitty’s life isn’t exactly the life he wishes he lived. Thurber uses simple sounds to take Mitty into a whole different world, where he is the most important figure for once. A manly figure. He takes his mundane life and changes it into a wide variety of day dreams where he is the man he wants to be and has the attention he seeks. “Not so fast! You’re driving too fast!” said Mrs. Mitty. “What are you driving

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber is a short story about a man named Walter Mitty. Walter is an ordinary man living an ordinary life, however, Walter always seems to escape into one of his fantasies while trying to accomplish everyday task. This often leads to Walter being mocked and ridiculed by people around him. Furthermore, Walter’s wife, Mrs. Mitty is dominant in their relationship. She establishes many rules which Walter must fulfill. This is evident when, Walter drives fifty-five

live a life of action and excitement. This concept is the exact idea that James Thurber wrote about in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” utilizing indirect characterization and motifs to highlight those ideas. In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” the characterization through the actions and thoughts of Walter Mitty are employed to expose his personality and subsequently act as a catalyst for the plot development. The story taking place primarily in 1939 Waterbury, Connecticut, Walter Mitty drives

anything and Walter Mitty would dream of it and make it seem special. The short story is called “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”by James Thurber, it is an interesting story about a guy named Walter Mitty, who has a nagging wife constantly on him, but he goes through his boring life imagining about all the cool stuff he could do. A dominant theme in James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is Imagery. He shows imagery in his short story by making his character, Walter Mitty, imagine he's

The movie, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’’ is a movie that is based on the short story written by James Thurber. The movie takes place in New York City, where the main character Walter Mitty works at Life magazine as a negatives assistant. The story quickly changes when the workers at Life are told that the new boss will be making cut backs after the last print of the magazine was made. As the cover of the last magazine they were told to capture the quintessence of negative 25 which was photographed

Examples In the short story, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” by James Thurber, Walter Mitty is an inscrutable character. Walter first shows his inscrutability when he is on his way with his wife to a town called Waterbury going fifteen miles faster than the limit, not letting her know why. She believes that he is crazy and does this on purpose, but Walter was really living in his own daydream. This act of what seems to be a concealment, shows that Walter prefers keeping his imagination to

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Cadina Odum ENG125 Mary Lounsbury March 17, 2013 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