Walter Mitty

In this short story Walter seems to be an excessive daydreamer. I think that he daydreams because he is so stressed out by his controlling wife. He uses his imagination to escape reality and express his emotions of anger and self-pity. Throughout the story, Walter changes into different characters several times. He flips back and forth between reality and fantasy so much he may have a problem with his attention span. Walter needs Mrs. Mitty to keep him on track but because he is a daydreamer it irritates her. I…

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,…

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 things he…

In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” James Thurber uses setting to contrast the protagonist’s thoughts, imagination, and feelings with his actual real life. To start with, the setting that is happening in Walter’s real life is pretty banal and uninteresting, “His wife would be through at the hairdresser’s in fifteen minutes … She didn’t like to get to the hotel first; she would want him to be there waiting for her as usual. He found a big leather chair in the lobby, facing the window, and he…

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;…

Walter Mitty is representative of the modern man “Mitty [Mit-ee] (noun) (informal) a person who imagines that their life is full of excitement and adventures when it is in fact just ordinary.” The Juxtaposition of real life events to daydreams are important features in the text in which we are led to question Walter’s sanity. The text both starts and ends in Walter’s fantasies, and he only comes back into the real world when someone pulls him out of them. Walter’s daydreams play such a vital…

The protagonist, Walter Mitty copes with his repressed desires by using dreams as an escape from his unfulfilling life; ultimately, showcasing the negative consequences to the superego dominating the ego. In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, James Thurber portrays Mitty’s self-awareness that his desires cannot be accomplished in reality, therefore he needs to repress these desires. As reinforced by his wife, “You’re not a young man any longer” (Thurber 1). Everytime Mitty attempts to re-enact his…

In, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Walter Mitty has many real life character traits and character traits of the men in his daydreams, that are very different and show the man that he wants to be and the man he doesn’t like to see himself as. Many times in Mitty’s daydreams, he is a leader who is well-respected and leads with authority. In his first daydream he is a commander who is trusted by his men who believe, “The Old Man’ll get us through” (Thurber, 2.) While in real life, his wife is the…

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…

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is an adaptation of James Thurber's 1939 short story which was released in 2013 and directed by Ben Stiller who is also the main character of the film. The story is mainly about Walter Mitty who is an employee at Life magazine. He spends the rest of his boring day working on unique photos for the publication. Walter inhabits a world of daydreams as he tries to escape from his tedious daily life. Walter falls in love with an employee who works in the same…