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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
While Walter Mitty does try to change his wife's view of him, there is no indication by the end of the story that he has succeeded in his task. At the same time, there is every indication that...
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Literature
In the short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber, the main character does not "make his daydreams become a reality," but rather his reality is altered by his mental wanderings....
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
In Walter's last daydream, he defiantly faces a firing squad, confident in his ability to die courageously. He scornfully rejects the handkerchief or blindfold, preferring to face his fate with...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Walter Mitty's wife does not play any role in any of his fantasies. This is suggestive. Apparently his fantasies are, among other things, a means of escape from his hectoring wife. He has a "secret...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Walter Mitty daydreams in order to combat the monotony of his life and to become the type of person that he wishes that he could be. His daydreams are a form of escapism. Walter Mitty isn't...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The title of James Thurber's short story is, indeed, appropriate. Walter Mitty is a failure in life, and he attempts to deal with his fears and challenges by retreating into the "secret life" of...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
No. There is no flashback. The story unfolds in a straightforward fashion from the time Mitty is driving his wife into Waterbury, Connecticut, on a mundane shopping trip to the end when they are...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Walter Mitty would like to be assertive, commanding, courageous, brave, fearless, heroic, and unwavering. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is a darkly humorous tale of a man who is defeated by...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The "secret life" of Walter Mitty is the life he leads in his imagination. Nobody would suspect that such a quiet and often incompetent man would be experiencing so many adventures in his mind. The...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Mrs. Mitty does not explicitly express her feelings towards Walter, but she demonstrates no respect for her husband, trivializing whatever he says. Moreover, she seems to treat him as though he...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Fantasy is utilized by author James Thurber as Walter Mitty's escape from an embarrassing or humiliating situation. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" begins in media res of one daydream, and Mitty...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
In all of Walter Mitty's daydreams he is playing an heroic leading role. It has been pointed out that the roles and settings are the kinds that would be found in popular fiction and Hollywood...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
In the story, and this includes Walter's daydreams, the author uses a third person narrator. Using this point of view, the narrator refers to each character as he, she, it, they, etc. "I" is used...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Marital conflict is a recurring theme throughout “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.” Mitty is first pulled from his daydream of commanding a hydroplane in the Navy by his wife complaining that...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Two incidents that reveal the treatment of Walter Mitty by other members of society and their attitudes toward him are the following: Mitty takes his car to a garage in order to have the snow...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
I don't think that Walter Mitty is considered crazy by those around him because he does not merit that much attention. If Walter was considered crazy, then attention would have to be paid to him....
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Walter Mitty's interactions with other people are not emotionally restorative. Walter's interactions with people in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" are distant. He does not experience any...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Reality is always interfering with the intense and detailed daydreams of Walter Mitty. In the opening sequence he imagines himself as a pilot guiding his "eight-engined Navy hydroplane" through a...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Walter's daydreams in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" show him to be a man of importance and action. These are qualities he lacks in his daily life. In his day to day existence, Walter lacks...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Walter Mitty leads a life that is probably a lot different than the one he thought he would lead at a young age. He is a devoted family man who probably has a nice desk job, but he desires more...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
In James Thurber's short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the titular character does not actually go on a journey, but instead becomes captivated by realistic daydreams inspired by minor...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Insofar as one need only read the first two paragraphs of James Thurber's short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty to discover the source of the interruption in the protagonist's daydream, the...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
In his external world, Walter is basically miserable. His wife constantly nags and criticizes him about everything he does (or forgets to do). His only means of happiness is to escape into his...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Mittys do not have a dysfunctional marriage but a marriage that is symbiotic. They really need each other. Walter Mitty is so introverted and so absent-minded that he would find it hard to take...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Mrs. Mitty is a termagant. She brings Walter Mitty out of a couple of his daydreams by means of her scolding and nagging. A man who is rather inept and obviously "hen-pecked" as the expression of...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The term "psychopath" seems very strong to apply to a meek, inoffensive man like Walter Mitty. For example, many psychopaths are considered dangerous because they lack feelings of empathy for other...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
In his daydreams, Walter Mitty imagines himself as an important, successful person because in reality he is the exact opposite. Mitty is a character who fits the trope of the everyman and the...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Only three huh? Walter Mitty imagines himself in more than three lives, but I'll pick three. One of the imaginary lives that Walter imagines himself in is as killer being interrogated in a court...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Walter Mitty's daydreams are acts of rebellion against his oppressive wife, imaginary displays of manliness that feed Mitty's wounded ego. However, he sometimes becomes embroiled in conflict...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
As the story begins, Walter is in the middle of a daydream. He is the commander of a hydroplane. His lieutenant warns him that the conditions are too harsh but Walter (Commander) shows daring and...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
In "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" the main character, Mitty, must have lived near a fairly urban, metropolitan area considering that the entire story is framed by Mitty and his wife driving and...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
In "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," the main conflict is that of the Individual's Desires against Reality; the main theme is A Person's Dreams for Life vs. Society. Conflict - Individual's...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
It is an interesting question. If Walter can imagine himself as a successful, confident man, why doesn't he try to actively convert himself into such a success in his real life? There is no...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The story opens right in the midst of one of Walter Mitty's secret fantasies. "We’re going through!” The Commander’s voice was like thin ice breaking. He wore his full-dress uniform, with the...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
In James Thurber's entertaining short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," the main character's daydreams remove him from the irritations of his mundane life by providing him with an heroic...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Walter Mitty is doing some shopping for his wife. He is trying to remember one of the items she told him to get. A passing newsboy is shouting something about a trial in Waterbury and Mitty...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Walter Mitty's daydream which opens the story is a good example of how he translates reality into fantasy. "We're going through!” The Commander’s voice was like thin ice breaking. He wore his...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Walter Mitty certainly is a daydreamer. He spends most of his time imagining he is somewhere else, doing extraordinary things. From this, we can conclude that he is absentminded. In other words, he...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
There is a subtle linkage among Mitty's interactions with his wife, the police officer, and the parking-lot attendant. It has to do with gloves. When Mitty is letting his wife off in front of the...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
With his own brand of wit, irony, and humorous distortions of speech, James Thurber creates a comic Everyman in Walter Mitty. Mild and submissive, Mitty dreams of being heroic and non-conforming,...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
There are only two main characters in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," a middle-aged man and his wife. Walter Mitty himself is the most important character because the story is all about his...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
James Thurber uses many made-up words in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," but only two or three seem to qualify as examples of onomatopoeia, which is the creation of words that imitate natural...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Walter Mitty’s life is a juxtaposition of boring normalcy and extraordinary fantasies. Mitty goes into his fantasies to escape the real world: he dreams of being a Captain, a Commander, a famous...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The most overt stereotype is that of the confident hero. The first daydream portrays Walter as the commanding officer on an airplane. He and the crew are actually flying into a hurricane. Walter,...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Walter Mitty identifies himself with stereotypical characters in all of his daydreams. In the first episode he becomes a gallant naval officer. He wore his full-dress uniform, with the heavily...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Walter Mitty prefers to live in a world of his own choosing that is only tangentially connected to reality. The story opens with Mitty as the commander of a “Navy hydroplane,” competently and...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Walter Mitty is not insane. He is an introvert. He might be said to be a typical James Thurber character. Another example of such a Thurber character is Mr. Martin in “The Catbird Seat,” And...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
When Mr. and Mrs. Mitty meet again at the end of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," Mrs. Mitty scolds her husband for hiding in the winged chair where she cannot see him when she enters the room of...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
There are so many differences between James Thurber's story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and Ben Stiller's 2013 film version that virtually the only thing they seem to have in common is the...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Mrs. Mitty breaks into her husband's fantasy as he is imagining himself the commander of "a huge, hurtling eight-engined Navy hydroplane" fighting its way through a storm approaching hurricane...