The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber Copyright Notice ©1998-2002; ©2002 by Gale Cengage. Gale is a division of Cengage Learning. Gale and Gale Cengage are trademarks used herein under license. For complete copyright information on these eNotes please visit: http://www.enotes.com/secret-life/copyright eNotes: Table of Contents 1. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: Introduction 2. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: James Thurber Biography 3. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: Summary
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2014 How funny is that? James Thurber is an American author who has a very unique sense of humor‚ using events and references from his childhood. On December 8‚ 1894‚ self-described “night of the wild portent”‚ Mr. and Mrs. Charles and Mary Thurber gave birth to their second child‚ James Grover Thurber‚ in Columbus Ohio. He came into the world with one older brother named William. He later had a younger brother named Robert. No one knew at that time that Thurber was going to grow up to be one
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Introduction James Thurber is one of America’s 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
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rolling off of my grandmother’s tongue‚ the constant bickering‚ everything needing to be done a certain way at a particular time. This seems to be the same way Walter Mitty lives his life in the short story‚ “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber. I have elected to write a reader-response critical analysis on this shorty story to define why I found this short story to be alluring‚ how I related to each character‚ and how I was able
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MITTY The Secret Life of Walter Mitty “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is a story about an individual that constantly seems to be caught up in numerous daydreams and thoughts that have nothing to do with everyday matters. James Thurber treats Mitty’s actions very entertaining‚ and at the same time his humor catches our attention to the need of communication and the importance of human relationships. In marriage relationships is critical that we know how to communicate. Imagination
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Marcus Wilson English 125 Alex Vuilleumier 12/18/2013 In James Thurber ’s short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty‚" we encounter a man who constantly daydreams. Since the story is told in a third-person narration‚ the readers have a distinct perspective and a better understanding of the character ’s personality and thought process. With access to the protagonist ’s mind‚ the readers are able to understand and relate the significance of his dreams to his
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Living a Double Life Desiré P. Edmond ENG 125 - Introduction to Literature Instructor: Irene Robles-Huerta December 16‚ 2013 Living a Double Life In James Thurber’s short story‚ “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty‚” Walter Mitty uses his dreams as a means of escaping and to convey his feelings of irritation and unhappiness. When an individual daydreams‚ they have the tendency of escaping the trivial aspects of life and attaining a sense of freedom from their real world situations.
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realities are hard to tally with their expectation. The short story written by James Thurber called the Secret Life of Walter Mitty introduced us a kind of life leading by everyone. James Thurber (December 8‚ 1894 – November 2‚ 1961) was an America author‚ cartoonist and celebrated wit. He was best known by his cartoon and short stories. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Thurber#Bibliography Wikipedia‚ James Thurber‚ May 16‚ 2013) The theme of this fiction story is mainly about Mr. Walter escaping
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James Thurber “The Secret life of Walter Mitty” “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is an ordinary character who fills his mind with day dreams in which he sees himself as a hero‚ surgeon‚ jumps into enemy territory‚ and proves his manly strengths. Walter is trying to escape from the routines and humiliations he suffers in everyday life. The theme of success and failure is played out between the two characters Mr. and Mrs. Mitty in a weekly shopping trip to the city. In this story “The
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Fitweiler.(Thurber 3) Sitting in his apartment‚ drinking a glass of milk‚ Mr. Martin reviewed his case against Mrs. Ulgine Barrows‚ as he had every night for seven nights. He began at the beginning. Her quacking voice and braying laugh had first profaned the halls of F & S on March 7‚ 1941(Thurber 6) This he found difficult to do‚ in spite of entering an objection and sustaining it. The faults of the woman as a woman kept chattering on in his mind like an unruly witness.(Thurber 10) "Are
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