Secret Life

Walter Mitty “The secret life of Walter Mitty” written by James Thurber is a story about a man named Walter Mitty having a hard time facing the reality of everyday life. Walter finds himself at a crossroad between reality and a secret, fantasy world he has created for himself. In the real world, Walter is an old man busy doing chores for his nagging wife. In his fantasy world, Walter is a young, successful man surrounded by people that admire him. Walter’s daydreaming is a way for him to…

Dreams Left As Dreams: Analysis of “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” “The motivational speaker Jack Canfield expresses that ‘You only have control of three things in your life - the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take’.” There are many ways that people find joy in life and sometimes the only way that they can make something of it is inside their head. In “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber, Walter Mitty is an older gentleman who constantly goes…

tend to have a clear, worldly insight of the areas around them. Travelling causes people to move forward with their lives and gives them something to reflect on, and look to the future for. Traveling helped Walter Mitty change. In the film “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” Quarky, lame, negative assets manager Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) gets thrust into a conundrum where he is forced to leave his country in search of a missing negative. We see Walter in enter three countries, Greenland, Iceland,…

Life in the Shoes of Walter Mitty An active imagination is not something found in the everyday grocery market, for it is not something any human being can sell. It is an abstract idea gifted to lucky individuals. The author James Thurber follows a day in the life of one such individual in his short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”. A short piece of fiction written about an average man’s day, going about his tasks and occasionally being interrupted by bouts of his personal fantasies.…

Blue Zones. In his article: The Secrets of Long Life, he shows that the people in the Blue Zones incorporate physical activity naturally into their daily lives giving them a sense of purpose, low stress levels and strong families. Their environment contributes to nutritional and healthy choices too. Buettner discovered that the Italian island of Sardinia has the highest number of male centenarians in the world. In Japan, there is the longest disability-free life expectancy and in Loma Linda,…

What in life makes one truly happy, and is it relatively attainable? Throughout our lives, we are constantly instructed and motivated by this idea that wealth and power bring joy, and we dedicate our existence working towards that goal. Fame and affluence are idolized, and there is a craving to be in the places of those who “made it”. This unseen mask that others put on is deceiving and immensely misleading towards admirers. Although one might say that money can buy happiness, the American Dream…

“Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber and “The Mirror” by Haruki Murakami are both expressed as the struggle of the protagonist’s understanding of their own imagination and the identification of the difference between their thoughts wrapped with illusion and the reality, but having different techniques and messages. James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is a book with theme of desire of freedom from the reality where protagonist’s not acknowledge. In the text, the…

The Secret Life of Bees in their actions and mental state. When one is unable to express oneself, it heavily affects their mental health and generally causes stress for the person. A well known and relatively simple way to express oneself is to make art. Whether it be through painting, writing, music, singing and really anything one could imagine. Art therapy is also a common type of therapy. Expressive art therapy is the use of creative arts as a form of therapy and is a…

to feel about us. The movie ‘The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty’ proves just that, by showing countless imaginations Mr.Mitty has throughout the day to escape from his unmeaningful life. This story proves to us how self-perception can be changed through two dimensions of this man's reality and the conflicts that arise when he is not able to connect these instances with…

The psychoanalytical lens is a way of understanding the human mind and the characters within a story. Many different theories have contributed to psychology, but “most psychological criticism of the last century lands at the doorstep of Sigmund Freud” (Gillespie 1). Freud was the father of a psychoanalysis, helped explain human behavior, and came up with a way to treat mental illnesses. Freud focused much of his ideas on psychic forces having an influence on human behavior (Gillespie 2). He had…