Walter Mitty

Walter Mitty is a man who gets “henpecked” by his wife, and we all aware of the social phenomenon of many men get “henpecked” by their wife. He feels very insecure in his real life, and he begins to fantasizes about himself in an imagine world. Oppositely from his real life, Mitty is powerful and strong in his fantasies. He also gets respects and worships by other people in there. His characterization is very classical, if we view him from the point of a man who gets “henpecked”. Mitty is also…

“Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them,” (Bacigalupi). Two stories, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber and “The Interlopers” by Saki, provide compelling information on the ways that authors use style. While theme is not necessarily a concrete concept, it can be argued that these two stories share a similar theme: “things are not always as they seem.” This theme is important…

Lastly, when comparing the imagery of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Harrison Bergeron on the basis of plot, it is seen that Walter Mitty uses imagery to more easily and more effectively portray the plot in the story. Through the story, many pieces of imagery are used, this is one example from the start of the story. The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa. The Commander stared at the ice forming on the pilot window. He walked over and twisted a…

struggling during the difficult times. Walter Mitty, a character from one of his short stories, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, is a great example of an escape from reality. Mitty imagines himself experiencing different realities in many different ways, one being a surgeon saving a pateint’s life. “That will hold for ten minutes… get on with the operation” (Secret Life of Walter Mitty 3). James Thurber wanted the people reading his stories to feel like Walter Mitty, and think of themselves…

there is a light inside that tells us everyday we get through is another day closer to that thing we want most for ourselves. This is seen in “War Dance”, a documentary about the yet to be mitigated Uganda, and the wondrous film “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”. One could even see it in the classic novella “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck.nThis is because this light is inherent within all of us, giving us the push that is needed in order to go through every day. This light is our hopes and…

In the film The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, directed by Ben Stiller, Walter Mitty (played by Ben Stiller) lives an unadventurous lifestyle as a negative assists manager at Life Magazine. After the company gets bought out, Walter’s new boss Ted Hendricks (played by Adam Scott) says there will be cut backs on employees. Most at Life start to worry including Cheryl Melhoff, Walter’s love interest/ co-worker (played by Kristen Wiig). When Walter losses the last cover’s negative, number…

Steinbeck, is a story, about two men who are chasing the american dream, hitting many obstacles along the way. War Dance, directed by Sean Fine, is a documentary about life in the Ugandan war zone. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, directed by Ben Stiller, is a movie about Walter Mitty, an average man with a vast imagination, who ventures the world seeking a man who has the missing negative for a magazine cover that he needs to prevent himself from losing his job. [C] Every character from these…

primary focus is on Willie Loman and his quest for covetous success as a salesman in addition to his felt need to have successful sons. Susan Koprence compares the character Walter Mitty of James Thurber’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty to Willy Loman in Death a Salesman stating, “Feeling frustrated and diminished, both Mitty and Willy Loman escape into a world of illusion, engaging in vivid, obsessive daydreams.” (322). Moreover, within Death of a Salesman one sees Willy having daydreams or…

Once this reality becomes a daily routine it gets hard to distinguish the difference between illusion and reality. This illusion can change how we want to feel about ourselves, and how we want others 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…

speaker talked about Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera and how it uses dreams. The second speaker's book of choise was The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. They chose to approache dreams in a more spiritual way. The third one was The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber. The speech managed to connect daydreaming with the conscious mind. The last speaker's book was The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, which is a personal favourite of mine. The speech was about how…