The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

In the short story “The secret life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber, it talks about a man by the name Walter Mitty. Walter seems to have many daydreams between the real life things he is doing. It starts with Walter being the commander of a Navy Hydroplane in the middle of a storm, while in reality he was driving his car and the engine reminded him of a Navy Hydroplane. There are many themes for Walter, and what triggers his daydreams along with many conflicts, three of these things being; the…

“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…

Self - acceptance is truly the missing link in life. Without confidence in yourself and abilities, it can leave one feeling miserable and inferior to others. In the short stories, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber and “The Prospector’s Trail” by Cathy Jewison the protagonist are faced with the conflict of not accepting oneself which leads them to an unfulfilled life. Then they accept their places and realize to not listen to others opinions. As a result, the protagonist learns…

represented in Of Mice and Men by how George is always going out of his way to help Lenny, then by how Candy offered help and $350 towards them getting the farm. In War Dance they all came together to win the dancing competition. Finally in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty everyone he met was helping him in some way. In Of Mice and Men George is always helping Lenny but he does not have hope for their goal of starting their own farm and “Living off the fatta the lan’,” until they get offered $350…

“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…

short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, through the exploration of ideas such as power and versions of reality, and also shows how these ideas are influenced by context and can result in new understandings of the world. In The Tempest there are multiple manifestations of power and William Shakespeare displays…

In life, people often use traveling as a mechanism to do one of two things: find themselves or lose themselves. The actual circumstances of the journey itself do not have to be exoctic or far away, it can be as simple as Walter Mitty’s excursion in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.” In this short story, Mitty travels alongside his wife through their somber town past various physical locations. These locations give the reader a glimpse inside Mitty’s mind as they elicit daydreams about several…

Walter Mitty is a man who uses his active imagination to escape the pressures of his wife. Shrewd and controlling in nature Mrs.Mitty is constantly emasculating Walter. The only thing that allows Walter to endure is his vivid imagination; however his wife tries to smother this form of self expression too. In “ A Jury of Her Peers” the motif of oppressive marriages is explored again. The women in this story are dominated by their husbands. They are forced to complete arduous and bland housework…

The film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty follows an unimpressive white-collar man as he finds his life thrown into scenarios he would otherwise only have imagined. Walter Mitty goes from working as a negative assets manager in a crowded workplace to swimming in shark infested waters and climbing the Himalayas. Undergoing such a drastic change, over the course of the film, Ben Stiller employs a variety of directorial choices to further enhance how Walter Mitty had to isolate not only his mind,…

characteristic of Paul, “He stood through smiling” (2), his attitude towards life is like nothing matters to him. And on the other hand, Paul’s passion shows the flat characteristics of him, while his ideas and thoughts show the round character part of him. Paul’s situation ironically describes what is going to be likely if we continue our obsession with judgment of people by their actions, sentences of them by our…