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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a film which revolves around an ordinary ineffectual individual who often tunes in and out of the existent world and the imaginative. Walter is portrayed as a character with a tedious and mundane life. Although we see numerous theme that co-exists in the film the most prevalent and concrete theme, is identity. The individual experience that Walter confronts really shapes his identity and his monotonous life throughout the story. Immediately at the start of the film

Both “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and “Lamb to the Slaughter” analyze human’s ways of achieving self- acceptance. Walter Mitty’s persona is not considered ‘appropriate’ by people around him, so as a result, he daydreams to accept his true character. On the contrary, Mary Maloney’s self- love is built upon the presence of her husband, so when he decided to leave, her whole world shattered. In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, James Thurber explores the topic of self acceptance through the protagonist’s

The book “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is about a man name Walter Mitty, who daydreams. He goes in and out of them. They happen from something that distracts him. His wife is the one who normally gets him back into reality. The movie is different, but also similar. 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. In

short story ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ by James Thurber share similarities to the romantic comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the movie, but they also contain many differences.* The short story tells a tale of a man escape reality whilst the movie displays the man daydreaming to enhance reality. Similarly, Walter Mitty in both stories is a man that daydreams to a big extent. His daydreams always involve women as the root cause. In the short story, Walter attempts to daydream fun things

the author, James Thurber called, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.” The story is about a couple. The main person in the couple is Walter Mitty. He has daydreams of being well known and famous, like a fearless pilot, a surgeon, sharpshooter, etc. While his wife oppresses him all his life. The daydreams are a way to cope with oppressive wife. In the end Walter’s wife walks in a drug store leaving him to wait; lights a cigar and says, “ Walter Mitty the undefeated, inscrutable to the last.” A theme

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Symbolism Both the short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber, and the major motion picture based on the short story, featuring Ben Stiller, have many examples of symbolism. These examples of symbolism affect the reader or watcher very much. These affects let the writer or director to add meaning to their work and make the theme easier to grasp. These uses of symbolism help Walter develop as a character. The use of symbolism makes the overall meaning

In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” Walter Mitty daydreams into fantastic fantasies as he faces the harshness of reality. Walter is first seen as the Commander of a navy hydroplane through a hurricane. However, the “The Old Man ain’t afraid of Hell” (The) in the hurricane is afraid of his wife as she nags him for speeding. Unnamed Mrs. Mitty continues to command her husband even insisting that he wear gloves. Walter, upset, purposely takes off the gloves at a red light. As he stopped at the red

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

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

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, directed by Ben Stiller, focuses on the desire to escape from the tedious and dull life that Walter (portrayed by Stiller) has been stuck in. Ben Stiller has shown his audience that many people may live in a life similar to Walter’s. A life that is predictable and monotonous. Stiller explores this theme by showing that Walter was cemented into a life that was unwanted due to his father's death at a young age. Due to the demise of his father, Walter had to take care