The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is an unusual short story about a man who's dreams take him away from reality. His constant dream-like state fills him with joy which the real world could never supply him with. Ultimately, the reader is stuck in the life of Walter and sees the world as he does. As the story goes on, the reader learns of how tragic this story really is. Walter is so unhappy with his current life that he has to go into trances of action-filled daydreams, he cannot do simple tasks properly

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

To begin this essay, I’ll start with some critical thinking about “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, before I transition to my comparison of “On the Surface”. One admirable component of this story written by James Thurber in the year 1939, is his sharply observed, usually ironic, small details of human action that reveals distinct perspectives of the character’s personality. The back and forth construction of the story was used to illustrate the protagonist’s realm of thought, however it ends up

In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber, Walter Mitty’s ordinary life is nothing too thrilling. He often imagines himself in his little fantasy worlds so he can reach a better version of himself; a fearless, strong, and heroic man. Walter is too afraid of the real world to accomplish his true potential and rather fantasy himself in a childlike fantasy instead of facing his own real-life problems and decisions. Walter Mitty’s lifestyle choices is an example of how not to be a loser in

In the story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber, we get to experience what a normal day for the main character, Walter Mitty, is like. Walter Mitty is constantly jumping into a fantasy world where he is something that he is not in reality due to the feeling that he is a failure in life. Walter Mitty also thinks he is constantly being picked on by the people around him and also considers his wife to be a nag because she complains about everything that he does wrong. What I believe

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself.” These great words were spoken by George Bernard Shaw. The creating of a life is a huge part of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty written by James Thurber. Walter Mitty has a boring life, so he creates one in the most destructive way. He dreams of great lives, making m more depressed every day, seeing what he could have and what he does. The author of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty portrays a boring, dull life by the contrast between

Walter Mitty had an imagination like no other. His head was filled with many exciting and new adventures. In the short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber, Walter Mitty uses his dream worlds to escape reality. He is a very unique character with many different aspects to him. Walter Mitty is imaginative, and creative in his own way. “Walter drove on toward Waterbury in silence, the roaring of the SN202 through the worst storm in twenty years of Navy flying fading in the remote

to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life”.- Walter Mitty (Movie). 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

Literacy Analysis of “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” In the story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber takes place in Waterbury as a man named Walter Mitty who goes through life daydreaming a lot as he goes through town to do errands, while his wife gets her hair done. Throughout Mitty’s little trip in Waterbury, there is a theme of success and failure. Walter Mitty wounds up in five daydreams. The first dream he goes through is at the beginning of the story. He imagines himself

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Walter Mitty’s personality is he has a lot of courage and potential according to his character traits in his daydreams. When Walter Mitty has all sorts of daydreams. Those daydreams reveal his character about him. In Walter Mitty’s daydream, other people treat him respectfully. Other than his wife, Mrs. Witty. First of all, Walter Mitty behaves with his wife and with other real-life characters in the story because Walter Mitty isn’t anything special. Walter Mitty