James Thurber

“The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty”, a film directed by Ben Stiller (2013) is a film that explores the theme of courage in many ways. The theme of courage is explored through sub-themes, cauterization and cinematic techniques. The most prominent way courage is shown throughout this movie is Walter’s fantasies, Walters trip to Greenland and the cinematic techniques. During the course of the film Walter had many ‘fantasies’. He often dreamed up fictional situations with real people. This is…

In James Thurber’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the author’s convulsive focus on the dynamic impacts of the abrupt settings, unreasonably complexes the fluidity of the story by misleading the reader on the current plot of Mitty’s life verses the settings conjured by his imagination in the story. Furthermore his use and examples of location, metaphors and imagery also leaves the description and development of the character to the reader’s imagination which while might make it easier to digest…

A man had had to come out in a wrecking car and unwind them, a young, grinning garageman” (Thurber, 2). Mitty faces a defeat upon witnessing a supposedly younger male perform a job that he has proven to be incapable of. Watching someone who should have less skills perform such a job makes Mitty feel as though he lacks essential and fundamental…

In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty movie and story, as well as the Ralphie Phillips Cartoon, imagination is used to cure boredom, to imagine a different reality, and sometimes they are unaware that it is happening. In the three stories, the main characters are bored with their lives and use imagination to see themselves somewhere else. They also use imagination because they are unhappy with their situation and see themselves with different and more interesting lives. In some cases, especially…

cannot handle tasks very well, his wife cannot understand him and complained “Why do you have to hide in this old chair? How did you expect me to find you” His wife should be respectful to him so that Whiter Mitty can have confidence in real-life.(Thurber, 5) His wife judges his mistakes very rudely. He cannot solve the problems effectively, and it leads him to have low self-esteem, it causes him to indulge in…

The review of ‘’the secret life of Walter Mitty’’ The first time I saw the poster of this movie I knew that this is a comedy. But to my surprise, I never think of a comedy could be so powerful and encouraging. This is a clearly understandable comedy with the profound theme. It talks about Walter, an ordinary, cowardly man, who works with the photographic plate in a magazine company for 16 years. His life is so tedious that he always daydreams. He dreams about being a hero, saving the woman whom…

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.…

A Secret Life of Walter Mitty is an American adventure comedy-drama that was directed by and stars Ben Stiller. The film takes us on a journey with the protagonist, Walter Mitty portrayed by Ben Stiller, who is a negative assets manager at Life Magazine. Often times he escapes the harsh reality of the work by daydreaming in a world where he is always the hero. Walter fancies one of his coworkers, Cheryl Melhoff, but he believes he does not possess any heroic qualities that would woo her; however…

1. Vignette On September 4, 1997, James Matthew Garrison was born prematurely in a hospital. His parents are Tyler and Anya Garrison (a young couple 23 and 27 years old) who unexpectedly conceived James on New Year’s Eve at a party at an upscale hotel in New York City. Tyler and Anya Garrison are a wealthy couple and are well-known in their professions. Tyler is a successful entrepreneur in the technology field, and Anya is a world famous, traveling fashion designer and model. They are both…

facing the tree looking beyond into the black abyss and twinkling lights. I pull out my grandpas fly fishing book like I do every year. I read the cover, “ The Complete Angler” by James Prosek. Every year I can never seem to finish the book but I get closer every year. This time I skip ahead to where I stopped last year. James Waldon’s trip through the Scottish country side looking for a rare species of native trout. The book is way ahead of my level but my level of fishing knowledge is there to…