Walter Mitty Comparison

In James Thurber's “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” the movie and short story have much different external conflicts. During the short story, Walter's wife is always nagging at him and making his life difficult, while in the movie and it Walter's boss and co-workers who are giving him a hard time.Walter experiences his wife complaining while on their way into town, ¨Not so fast! You're driving too fast...What are you driving so fast for¨ (Thurber 1). He is not paying attention because he is daydreaming about more exciting things than what is going on in his life. In the movie Walter is very busy and nervous so he messes up an assignment and he goes into a daydream. Walter was sitting in the elevator

     As Walter's dreams become bigger and bigger, he seems to neglect the 'smaller' things such as his family. "Here I am a giant surrounded by ants! Ants who can't even understand what the giant is talking about,? (Hansberry 85). Walter has big ideals, but his methods of achieving his goals and ideals are somewhat irrational. Walter can be regarded as more concerned with becoming self-employed without really thinking about the consequences, which may be imposed on his family. Later in play, Walter learns that he needs to set his dreams aside for the sake of the

As Walter's dreams become bigger and bigger, he seems to neglect the 'smaller' things such as his family. "Here I am a giant surrounded by ants! Ants who can't even understand what the giant is

In the story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," by James Thurber, Mitty was not treated the same way in his dreams/visions that he was in real life. In his dreams he is this amazing hero that everyone adorse and appreciates, but in real life even his own wife doesn't treat his the way she should. Mrs. Mitty is always on Walters back, "You were up to fifty-five, you know I don't like to go more than forty," nagged Mrs. Mitty (3). But in Walters dreams he gets recognized as a hero and somebody who people like and think is cool, "I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand," impressivley says Mitty (7). Even in other dreams he has about him self people still shout a complement like "'the old man ain't afraid of

Walter's frustration festers and his anger turns inward towards his family who, in Walters eyes, do not understand him. Walter's family members do understand him and they also want to amass material dreams, but Walter's family members know that it is going to take work to get there.

All the sporadic thoughts he has in his head are telling him to do something that makes his life more interesting, worth meaning. In the short story, it is never fully fulfilled in reality because his thought and wife limit him, but in the movie, the missing film pieces pushes him. Performing great and rather life-risking and dangerous tasks that have adrenaline written all over them was what Walter Mitty was all about. There was a beautiful quote that was brought up more than once during the movie: “To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, to draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life.”

Walter Mitty uses his fantasies to avoid his wife. Ferguson points out that Mr.Mitty’s dreams usually occur during or after one of his dreams(433). Walter falls into his dreams to escape his wife even though sometimes he

Firstly, daydream Walter Mitty in the short story was a heroic individual who saved lives in the operating room (Thurber Para 6) or a pilot who was taking down the Luftwaffe (Thurber Para 13). This is an example of Walter Mittys desire to satisfy his thirst for adventure and give himself a sense of self-worth. Secondly, daydream Walter Mitty possess the character trait of bravery for different reasons. Walter is Brave in his dreams but not in the 1950’s sense of his equivalent in the short story. In the movie, Walter dreams of ridiculing his boss and ultimately beating him in a fight and speaking to the women he has expressed interest in (Stiller, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty). This is more of a hero to himself, benefitting not the masses, but the individual, being himself. He does act heroically, as a superhuman who jumps in to burning buildings to save a dog, but this exemplifies Walter trying to impress a woman, not better society as a whole. For these reasons, Walter Mitty’s day dream bravery is ultimately a tool to give himself a sense of

The film begins introducing the protagonist, Walter Mitty, inside the mundane adult life. We see him as a logical realist we expect all grown-ups to be. Through Walter, Stiller is conveying that without dreams there is no desire to stand out and will never find ease within life. At first, Walter has a low-risk and stable life, forfeiting his personal happiness and dreams. We see his meekness when he attempts to muster the courage to send a wink to his work crush, Cheryl, through eHarmony.

First of all, throughout the story, Walter Mitty has exceedingly vivid dreams, which involve different characters, and contains elements that greatly resemble that of a novel. This trait has been credited a symptom of Maladaptive dreaming by many of those who wrote of the condition (1)(2)(4). One may say that he is just a normal, but imaginative dreamer, but daydreaming in this way, in excess, is very abnormal indeed. The daydreams which Walter Mitty goes through are also reasonably realistic, such as fighting in a war, and curing a patient, which make it all the more strange (3). Walter Mitty is not a normal dreamer.

Mrs. Mitty just went about her way and did not pay her husband any mind. Walter escapes his life everyday life and bugging wife by day dreaming throughout his day. He will zone out with being a Commander, a doctor, a witness in court, a captain and a criminal. This was his only way of living with his wife.

Both the characters are really meek and fearful. The image of Walter Mitty by others is that of a meek husband who is dominated by his wife and is not at all adventurous and seriously lacks motives and goal in his life. The way Walter perceives himself to be in his dream world is entirely different from what he is in his real life. While professor Arthur fears the destruction of the world. Declaring himself the world 's 'first weapon with a conscience ', he flees and goes into hiding. Even Though he destroys the arms and ammunitions, he is afraid that he is mortal and human life is transient. He fears that at some point of time, again the world will turn towards war like situations.

In the story, The Strange Life of Walter Mitty, Walter Mitty struggles with an inferiority complex that has been developed from the belief that people were looking down on him. Even though it may be implied in the story that the people that Walter Mitty had interactions with were all looking down on him it is never truely stated therefore it is believed that Walter Mitty was just paranoid and assumed this. Since his inferiority complex and character prevents him from talking back and assuming a role of dominance he copes with this reality by daydreaming. The issue with his daydreaming is that he complelety leaves reality and puts whatever task he was doing on autopilot. In the first paragraph, Walter Mitty shows us one of his secret lives — these secret lives are more of a fantasy — as a navy captain while he battles a hurricane with his crew.

A comparison of what seems to be two completely different stories may not make sense, but they may have a lot in common if you review it carefully! In this case, we are comparing James Thurber's “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace¨. In James Thurber’s story, Walter Mitty is simply a normal man going down the road with his wife, although in his mind, in which he is daydreaming, he is captaining a hydroplane through a hurricane, while it breaks down. When woken from his dream, he was going 55 mph on an open road with his wife who was terrified by the speed he was traveling at. In Guy de Maupassant's story, the main character is Madame Loisel. She is married to a small clerk, lives in a small shabby apartment, and doesn’t have many friends to go out and be social with. One day her husband comes home and has a special invitation to a social event but she fears she can’t go due to the fact that she doesn’t have any jewels or a nice dress to wear. She buys a new dress, and borrows a necklace from her friend for the event. When the event is over she find that she has lost this “expensive” necklace. Her and her husband end up paying for a new one, only

    In the movie the movie of Walter Mitty they had more places for the setting, while in the short story the setting only takes place in a city named Waterbury where all they do is run errands. It had basically explained how they were in Waterbury but different places within the city. Due to this the short story didn't have many characters. However in the movie Walter was in the office and traveled many places. He was trying to track down Sean O’Connell to set negative 25 which was the cover photo. Some of the places Walter traveled included Greenland, Iceland, and Afghanistan, while he did these things it showed him that he is an important person. Every time Walter traveled he would always have some type of daydream, an example is when he was on the way to the volcano and he fell due to a daydream he had. Therefore the daydreams that Walter has affects what he gets done and i say that the movie adds much more detail than the short story.