Walter Mitty Compare And Contrast Essay

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 were more set in the past and much longer, sometimes too drawn out and a little boring for how much background story there is for just one day dream, whereas in the movie the daydreams are a bit shorter but more set in the present and more affect by what he does in that moment with little background because of how short they are and how close to the present they may be. The daydreams are usually much more exciting in the movie as well, whereas in the book it's set back to just a boring doctor surgery, that was
An example of how boring the book's main challenge is that one of Mitty’s goals is to buy overshoes, nothing really exciting about that right? the only thing making it hard for him to get these is his own daydreams while in the movie an example of its much more exciting plot and challenges would be how he has to travel to many places to find this one guy, specifically when he first had to go to iceland and the guy he was looking for wasn't even there, meaning he had to do even more work to find him, making his challenge only that much harder. Showing the whole movie is much more exciting than the book, i mean how exciting is it to read about someone nearly forgetting to buy something because he's too busy daydreaming about flying a