Topic > Fantasy in the Secret Life of Walter Mitty - 1405

Fantasies are what people experience on a daily basis. People love to step away from reality and into a world of their own with no limits on where they might go. People get so into their fantasies that sometimes this can help gain confidence or even make them lose track of what they were supposed to do or the time. Fantasies become a love-hate relationship because at some point you fall in love with the fact that you are doing something for your character and for your pleasure, but it is a hate relationship because you know that it most likely won't do it. happen or end soon enough. The story is written by James Thurber. Mitty and his wife are going to run some errands, he indulges in a daydream in which he is a military commander flying a plane, but his wife interrupts him by exclaiming that he is driving too fast. This pattern repeats itself several times during the journey. When she urges him to make an appointment with his doctor, he becomes a surgeon at work, until a valet's commands temporarily call him back to reality. Mitty doesn't actually do anything very well. In reality, very little happens in Thurber's story. Mrs. Mitty has a hair appointment; Mitty himself buys a pair of overshoes. As he tries to remember what his wife asked him to buy, he becomes an arrogant defendant in a murder case. He manages to buy some dog food and drops into a chair in a comfortable hotel lobby and imagines himself as a bomber pilot under ferocious attack. The returning wife wakes him up with the admonition that she will take his temperature when they get home. At the end of the story, Mrs. Mitty enters a drugstore and becomes a "proud and... middle of paper...neration to understand and bring total disrespect to James Thurber because he bore almost no resemblance to his book. The story ended with Walter picking up his wife and completing the tasks she asked of him and continuing to be him and nothing more. The film ended with Walter making the last picture found in Sean O'Connell's wallet he had sent to the laboratory and then gave it to his boss and told him to print it and never looked at the picture because it was printed. One thing that should have been done differently is to make the movie closer to the book, what should have been done is the extension of the book. driving experience and the extension of his experiences in the city The movie should have remained somewhat coordinated with the book so that people would be able to actually compare the book and the movie in more than a couple of ways...