is “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty‚” by James Thurber. I will use this story to write an understanding of literary themes. I will use this to describe the theme of the short story‚ then I will identify two literary elements in the short story that contributes to the point of view‚ tone‚ setting‚ character‚ and symbolism by giving an example of each. Finally‚ I will then explain how the selected literary elements affect the narrative theme. In “The Secret life of Walter Mitty‚” the theme of this story
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A Formalist Approach to a Satire Evaluating and analyzing a literary work is often thought to be the same practice with the same outcome. However‚ evaluating a work and analyzing a work is very different. In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”‚ it would be acceptable to evaluate the work as being ’good’‚ while analyzing it could render it a masterpiece. This paper will both analyze and then evaluate this short story using the Formalist Approach‚ revealing both my perception on the
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roles and marriage are portrayed in a wide variety of ways‚ ranging from the meek‚ silent wife to the husband who stops just short of breaking his back to provide for his family. This spectrum is evident in such short stories as The Secret Life of Walter MItty‚ I’m Going!: A Comedy in One Act‚ and The Story of an Hour. Women have traditionally been considered the weaker sex in marriage‚ and it is rare to have a fair and equitable relationship worth reading about. In the case of these stories‚ when women
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Bettina Golden ENG125 – Introduction to Literature Professor Joan Golding 10-16-2011 “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber both captured my interest from the very beginning. These short stories represent gender roles and marriage. They both are about married couples with controlling mates. “The Story of an Hour” is about a young married woman and how she reacts to the news of her husband dying in a train accident. The story takes place
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and allows readers to engage in identifying with what the writer’s work has to say about things that matter” (Clugston‚ 2010). I was able to identify with Walter Mitty in James Thurber’s story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”. I often find myself daydreaming and quite often it happens while someone is droning on in my ear. Such as Mrs. Mitty does in the story. I also think a specific and literal use of imagination is the Mitty’s daydream scenarios. After reading the play “I’m Going! A Comedy in
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literary works found in my text the differences and likenesses of each story‚ as they are being told to the audience. The initial stories that I have chosen to use for this essay are “The Necklace”‚ by Guy de Maupassant and also “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”‚ by James Thurber. I will attempt to compare and contrast both stories and give the audience a brief synopsis‚ explaining the likenesses and differences and engaging the reader‚ whilst doing so. Gender roles and marriages can play an important
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Readers Reflection John Hamilton English 125 Introduction to Literature Instructor Clinton Edwards April 21‚ 2014 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Readers Reflection Walter Mitty‚ who in this story‚ is an imaginary character however‚ his character does remind me of myself and many other individuals that I know. The main focus of the story is Walter ’s imaginary behavior or day-dreaming. Walter tends to get distracted from the real world and
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the authors work into life for the readers to see‚ feel or hear. The two short stories I have chosen to compare and contrast is the poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” written by Emily Dickinson in 1890/1983 and story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” written by James Thurber in 1939. These two stories take place in two different time periods. The main character‚ in each story‚ differs in death and position. However‚ these two stories share a similar message concerning life and marriage
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In life there is an abundance of mediocre things‚ and love should not be one of them. I believe Sir Walter Raleigh intends to reveal this to us in “Her Reply.” In this poem‚ a woman rejects a shepherd’s romantic but naïve proposal. This poem is a superior selection because it contains great connotation‚ and the alliteration is deep which gives insight to the woman’s philosophy on life and love. The connotation in this poem is a combination of negative and hypothetical words. The woman first of all
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THE PLOT DIAGRAM The plot diagram: most people learn about it somewhere in elementary school‚ and indeed‚ it is the most elementary of tools a writer and reader can use in summarizing and outlining a story. It is so basic and flexible that pretty much every story written in existence can be outlined via the plot diagram. And yet‚ there are stories that‚ when outlined‚ twist the plot diagram into interesting shapes‚ which leads me to suspect that there is a missing step in the plot diagram: the elusive
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