Reflection “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” Autumn Manriquez English 125 Introduction to Literature Instructor Corey King October 1‚ 2012 Reading Reflection of “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” The Reader-Response Approach is the way I connected to “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”. In this approach you can relate to the piece of literature by a personal experience. I worked with a lady by the name of Mary Hodges and she is the female version of the character Walter Mitty. This story is
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consequences. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty‚ written by James Thurber‚ tells the story of a forgetful and incompetent man who cannot handle simple tasks in his everyday life. Nevertheless‚ he takes advantage of his exceptional ability of imagination to escape his
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In the story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurbur‚ the main character‚ Walter Mitty‚ fantasizes very unrealistic and heroic daydreams. Mitty wishes his life was more interesting. He takes normal everyday activities and turns them into a fun adventure in his mind to escape his boring life. Mitty’s wife‚ Mrs. Mitty‚ is always nagging him and looking out for him. I feel that her actions are influenced by the fact that she has to protect Mitty from himself and has his best interests
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Emma “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” used an unconventional plot which a plot doesn’t have an exposition‚ a rising action‚ a climax‚ a falling action and a denouement in that order‚ however‚ an unconventional plot makes the story of Walter Mitty’s theme more stronger and leave a lot of imagination to the reader. The story developed the story by using smalls things‚ randomly appeared‚ as clues to connect the stories‚ so the story
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People have always imagined themselves as extraordinary or with heroic traits. Walter Mitty’s character has no heroic traits‚ and is never in control of his own life. His wife is always telling him what do and when and how to do it‚ yet he imagines himself as these characters that are in control and courageous. In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”‚ James Thurber uses parodies‚ setting‚ and Irony to contribute to a tragic comedic character. The Parodies in the story mock the typical fearless in
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The story of Walter Mitty is of interest. Walter Mitty is a normal man except for one thing.. his wild daydreams that take him from our reality to a totally different story‚ But there’s only one question‚ what telling of this story is better? the book or the movie? in this essay we will be discussing with only 3 reasons‚ why the movie is better than the book. First of all‚ one of the biggest reasons the movie is better than the book is because of the quality of the flashbacks. In the book the flashbacks
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best known humorists‚ and "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is his best known story. The story was first published in 1939 in the New Yorker magazine to great acclaim. It was reprinted in Thurber’s 1942 collection‚ My World-And Welcome To It and in Reader’s Digest in 1943. The story’s main character is a middle-aged‚ middle-class man who escapes from the routine drudgery of his suburban life into fantasies of heroic conquest. Upon the story’s publication‚ Walter Mitty became an archetypal American
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the story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber‚ is a story about a man named Walter Mitty and he is a daydreamer that dreams all day. He is a man that loses all of his day dreaming and daydreams about things that he sees and anything around him. He is a man that nobody really appreciates and knows very well‚ his wife is very controlling and bossy. Walter is a loyal guy‚ he does not have much of a life‚ and he bad memory. If I had the chance to eat dinner with Walter Mitty then he would
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In the stories‚ “the yellow wallpaper” and “the Secret Life of Walter Mitty” they have Protagonists that both use their imaginative power to escape reality. The difference between the two is that one of them could come back to reality while the other slowly lost her mind. Both protagonists have similar reasons for trying to escape reality and for both it mainly involves their domestic lives and spouse. Both characters are constantly being told what‚ and how to do things by those close to them‚ leaving
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seeing the universe in the eyes of another‚ of hundreds of others‚ in seeing hundreds of universes that each of them sees”. Through the analysis of the two Robert Gray poems of ‘Journey‚ the North Coast’ and ‘The Meatworks’‚ as well as ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’‚ directed by Ben Stiller‚ we as an audience learn that the key to discovery is developing a greater capacity to view the world from different perspectives other than ones own‚ leading to new understandings and personal growth. The audience
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