The imaginary Mitty never triumphs. Just as he is about to achieve his fantasy destiny, he is always pulled back into real life, usually because of an incident resulting from his own distraction. At the end of the story, he envisions himself fearlessly facing death at the hands of a firing squad.

The eponymous main character suffers from frequent vivid hallucinations that occur frequently to him throughout the day, almost like episodes of narcolepsy. He doesn’t seem like the type to be experiencing drug-induced “flash backs” or hallucinations and seems too young for dementia.

In some cases Mitty’s daydreams help him. His daydream about the courtroom helps him to recall what he is supposed to pick up for his wife. The first daydream where Mitty is starting up the Hydroplane causes his wife to become mad at him, which causes him to slow down the car.

In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Ben Stiller plays a mild-mannered desk lackey who finds himself on a quest around the world. At one point, the adventure sends him careening down a mountain on a skateboard. Stiller (who also directed the film) says yes, he took on the stunt himself.

The irony of Mitty’s life is that his daydreams are complete opposites of what his life is. He want to be different but just doesn’t have the courage.

Given its box office take, Walter Mitty has narrowly escaped that fate, according to Anne Thompson’s scorecard. But Hollywood green-lights based on what went before, and without even a SAGgie as consolation prize, Mitty will be held up as the reason to say “no” to any idea that looks remotely like it.

Danny Kaye

The moral of the short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber is that excessive daydreaming can be harmful to the person who daydreams and also to the people around them.

Walter James Mitty is a fictional character in James Thurber’s first short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, first published in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939, and in book form in My World—and Welcome to It in 1942. Thurber loosely based the character, a daydreamer, on his friend Walter Mithoff.

In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Ben Stiller plays a mild-mannered desk lackey who finds himself on a quest around the world. Stiller (who also directed the film) says yes, he took on the stunt himself.

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If there’s one thing Walter Mitty enjoys, it’s a good daydream. In his first daydream, which he has while driving his car with his wife next to him, he is a pilot. His wife puts an end to this by yelling at him to slow down. In his second daydream, he is a surgeon.

Mr. Mitty’s secret life takes him into a fantasy world that is more exciting to him than his real life. He becomes: a Navy pilot, a famous surgeon, a man on trial for murder, a man facing a firing squad. 3.

What personality traits does Mitty possess in his dreams? heroic, in charge, confident, strong, important, and he has a purpose. Compared to the way Mitty is treated by people in his dreams with the way he is actually treated in his real life. People respect him more in his daydreams than in real life.

Mrs Mitty’s dominant behavior and her constant nagging trigger Mr Mitty’s last daydream. The daydream is a comment on his real life because being in front of his wife is metaphorically like being in front of the firing squad.

This last daydream epitomizes his life in that he bravely faces the unhappy circumstances of his existence, knowing that escape is impossible. Thus he accepts it for what it is, though he escapes through his imagination.