An Unexpected Hero I read the New York Times article, He Can Balance a Checkbook, but Not His Imagination, a witty piece reviewing the movie “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.” The subject was presented in a vivid and colorful way filled with colorful diction. However, I found that there was a lot of summary throughout the article making it difficult to find the author’s opinion. The genre of this film is adventure, comedy, and drama. The main idea of this article was analyzing how the distinguished character of Walter Mitty differed from society’s expectations of a New York white-collared worker. This idea is initially mentioned in the first paragraph and throughout the article. The author portrays the world as being “dominated by overgrown
