Walter Mitty Movie

The Hopes and Tragedies of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Secret Life of Walter Mitty started as a short story, it's about a man who daydreams to escape reality. People have found this book to be both funny and sad, as some find the aspects of him pretending to be people he's not enjoyable, while others have found the idea of doing this to escape his reality is dreadful. The popularity of this short story as made Hollywood produce a movie out of it, explaining the story in greater depth. This movie was made to be a vast comedy, with some people agreeing with this, and some not. The story and the movie both have their ups and down's, but the question is, are they mostly hopeful, or are they mostly a tragedy. The book was mainly about how Walter Mitty was getting pushed around, and made fun of which involved him escaping into his dream world. The story starts out with a daydream, Walter dreams that he is …show more content…
In the book Walter is married, and the reason he daydreams is to get away from it all, as the wife keeps pushing him around, while in the movie Walter is not married, he has a crush on a girl. In the book and movie the daydreams are all different, the first daydream in the book was him controlling a hydroplane, while in the movie the first daydream was him rescuing a dog from a burning building that was about to explode. The biggest difference in both the book and the movie are the story, in the book there is not much of a story, all Walter is doing is running errands for his wife. In the movie he was trying to find a lost friend that gave him a picture which was never found until the end. In the movie, multiple different scenes were encountered, while in the book it was just one. The book and movie are different enough to be polar opposites, but never or less they were both enjoyable, and maybe them being different is a good