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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

The movie, Secret Life of Walter Mitty, is about a day-dreamer who escapes his life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance, and action. When his job gets threatened, Walter takes action in the real world embarking on journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined. When it comes to social acceptance, some people will go to great lengths to achieve it. Walter Mitty, the main character of the movie, is trying to

The referential meaning of Walter Mitty is that of a white collar who processes images and has lived a relatively scheduled life, in ways he hasn’t lived life to the fullest. When the time comes that he has to find a missing negative, he goes on an epic adventure with the encouragement of his crush and an urgency and demand for that negative photo because it’s for Life magazine's last edition. The referential meaning of this film was set by the trailer, the trailer does a amazing job setting up

creating the films and this is where great work is lost. Short stories are concise and straight to the point. For example, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber. This short classic, was first published in “The New Yorker” in 1939 and later on became a feature film. Ultimately, can a short story be successfully transformed into a film? Walter Mitty is an elderly man who spends much of his time with his overlooking wife meanwhile envisioning himself in different scenarios. Many of his

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 gets bossed

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was written by James Thurber, one of the most popular writers in his time. There are only two main characters: Walter Mitty and his wife, Mrs. Mitty. The rest are supporting characters in Mitty’s daydreams and the people he meets. The setting constantly shifts from one place to another; we go to the hospital in one daydream, and to a court trial in another. But the real Mitty is somewhere in Waterbury where you can find a hairdresser

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

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber is about the trip Walter Mitty takes into town with his wife. During this trip, Mitty experiences many different daydreams that seek to help him escape from the monotony of his life. Each of these fantasies is brought about by some aspect of Mitty’s life. While driving too fast into town Mitty dreams of being the commander of a Navy hydroplane, flying through a storm. After dropping off his wife at the salon, Mitty fantasizes about being a miracle

process of an individual’s self-actualization is portrayed through the protagonist, Walter Mitty’s evolution in Ben Stiller’s 2013 adventure comedy-drama The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. In search of Sean O’Connell and the “quintessence of life,” Walter grows from a timid dreamer to an adventurous person grounded in reality through his countless experience. Consequently, Ben Stiller utilizes The Secret Life of Walter Mitty to reflect and develop how people learn about

Although Walter Mitty is sought to be an average, middle-aged man, he goes through periods of time escaping reality through fantasies. In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, James Thurber creates Walter as an insecure husband who is degraded by his own wife. Whenever Walter feels mortified and like a failure, he falls into deep fantasies where he is portrayed as a hero who always ends up saving the day. Through the depiction of elaborate fantasies, Thurber reveals how escaping reality allows Mitty to