The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

In the short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber, Walter Mitty is an adventurous daring hero trapped inside the body of a feeble old man. He gets by every day with his wife, Mrs. Mitty, but he still seems unsatisfied and constantly enters his own imagination. It is in his own mind that he reveals his true form, whether it be a courageous commander, a respected surgeon or a mysterious man with excellent marksmanship. Walter Mitty wishes to be someone amazing. Someone…

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a comedic drama about a Negative Assets Manager at Life Magazine, Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller), a nice underdog who has taken one too many hits from the world and resorts to maladaptive daydreaming as a coping mechanism. When the negative for the final cover of Life goes missing under Walter's supervision, he must venture across the world and learn to stand on his own two feet in order to recover the missing negative and win the affection of coworker Cheryl…

The Feed “trailer” is of images which represent the novel however, this is not accurate as today’s society and technology are different from the time frame from the book. In the Ben Stiller film ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’, the protagonist resists his fantasies and opens his mind for more in life. Three issues and themes which are incorporated in the novel and film are; power, modes of communication and social identity and this is shown through time, social and technological ways and…

"The Secret life of Walter Mitty," is a short story of an ordinary man who takes his wife into town for an appointment and to run errands. During the story, we learn that Walter is a forgetful man who frequently daydreams. He uses these dreams to distract himself from reality. There are hints within the story that show Mr. Mitty is forgetful. I believe his forgetfulness is in part due to the fact the for the majority of their trip he seems to be trapped in his imagination. Therefore,…

Dinner With Walter Mitty From what we’ve read in James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” Walter Mitty has an ebullient and wandering imagination. There are multiple occasions in the short story in which Mitty is distracted by a daydream that is somehow tied to what’s happening in reality, causing him to lose sight of what he’s doing at the time. Absent-mindedness can cause some trouble if one finds themselves in a daydream while driving, or perhaps in the middle of a conversation. On…

English Movies That Will Inspire You to Travel There are so many movies based on travel. Following is a list of six English movies that will inspire you to travel: Before Sunrise - This brilliant 20th century movie is an all-time classic. It is about two young people, belonging to opposite genders, who meet on a train in Europe. The just spend one night together, perambulating in Vienna, but before they realize, they develop feelings for each other. Watch it to know what it is like to fall in…

“Reading a good book is like taking a journey…” Emma Gulliford. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is definitely a journey, both book, written by James Thurber, and movie form. The movie, while action-packed, emotional, heroic, and well-developed in a flowing manner, is very different from the short story that is filled with different expressions of personality and a lot less developed, but all in all both fantastic and attention grabbing. While the movie and the short story are named the same…

relationship that gets way too power hungry. There are many hidden truths that the public is unable to see that the author reveals in the following stories: Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” and Shaw’s “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses.” It is clear to see from the beginning of “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” that Walter Mitty is a helpless, defenseless, vulnerable “man” who lives in a dream 90% of the time…

with something as foolish as that. (B)However, movies such as The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, the book Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, and the documentary following three Acholi children in Northern Uganda, War Dance prove that not only children should have hopes and dreams, but everyone. (C) There are many different reasons of why we need hopes and dreams and goals in our lives, and they are all very beneficial to us in life.(D) Hopes,dreams and goals provide people something to live…

In English class we read and watched The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, which is written by James Thurber. There were many things in this book that were different but there were a few you could compare. One thing that amazed me the most, is that the book and the movie both star Walter Mitty and his daydreams. In the book he daydreams while he does his daily tasks, but in the movie he actually goes on adventures and tries to save his job. Expanding on my theory of daydreams I believe that these are…