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    the book “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Herbert‚ Walter Mitty daydreams all the time. He daydreams while driving‚ eating‚ and if he’s working he is probably day dreaming. I would have dinner with him because I can talk all I want‚ I can space out when I want and he won’t care. Also when I’m done eating I can leave him the bill and he has to pay. Those are some of the reasons I would like to have dinner with Walter Mitty. The best reason I want to have dinner with Walter is that he and

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    Daydreams and Walter Mitty "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" You have all daydreamed from time to time but Walter Mitty is an excessive daydreamer. He daydreams because he is stressed out by his controlling wife. He also dozes off to dream about masculine adventures. Also the reason is he feels society does not get him and what kind of man he is. The last reason he daydreams is because he wants to get away from his boring life. In James Thurber’s "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty‚" Walter daydreams

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    Analysis: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Tara Jackson ENG 125 Introduction to Literature Instructor Alfaro April 18‚ 2011 The short story that I will do an analysis on is the Secret Life of Walter Mitty‚ written by James Thurber in March of 1939. This story centers around the hilarious and amusing daydreams of Walter Mitty an ordinary man‚ who resides in Waterbury‚ Connecticut‚ with his overbearing‚ nagging wife Mrs. Mitty. Throughout this short story Mitty is characterized as being a pathetic

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    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 very

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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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    Walter Mitty‚ an Avid Daydreamer Jannie W. Shelnutt ENG 125 Introduction to Literature Dr. Paula Porter June 17‚ 2012 Walter Mitty‚ an Avid Daydreamer James Thurber is known for his humor in writing. “His most famous short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is a single joke ingeniously sustained (Maddocks‚ 1985).” Who doesn’t daydream from time to time? In the short story‚ “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”‚ we learn that Walter Mitty is an avid daydreamer. This story tells of

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    Honors Unit: Short Stories “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” Creative Writing Assignment Writing Situation: In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty‚” the protagonist leads an unfulfilling‚ unsatisfying‚ and mundane existence. His only solace seems to come from the many daydreams that transport him to another place where his altered Ego dominates the landscape. By observing Walter Mitty’s exciting and lively daydreams‚ we get a distinct sense of what is sorely lacking in his real life. Directions for

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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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    Short Story Report of the Secret Life of Walter Mitty Young people like to fancy such a beautiful and romantic love story when the one he or she loves cannot feel the same way as they feel in reality. He or she may have a wonderful date going to a cinema or eating outside. Then their relationship keep going and they became intimate friends. That is based on the ideal situation that one will imagine which is totally contradicted from the real world. Everyone wants to be success and respectful both

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    Narrative Elements in the Short Story Patrick Powell ENG: 125 Prof. Wanda Deffenbaugh July‚ 18 2011 In the short story “the Secret Life of Walter Mitty” the themes identified are; the ability to escape real world events and frustrations by daydreaming and making himself feel important by always becoming the hero in his daydreams. Walter Mitty is very submissive to his wife‚ and she is pictured as sort of a bully and in order for him to escape his hectic life with his wife‚ he uses his imagination

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