Similarities Between The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty

In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, both novel and movie, the impossible becomes possible as reality bends. Since the story and the film take place in two different time periods Walter’s daydreams are bent into different periods and twisted in different ways. The plots of Walter Mitty’s life in 1939 compared to his life in 2013 are very different, but it’s his character to start off with and his dreams in which we find similarities.

Walter Mitty’s daydreams start off in differently in the novel and the movie. In the novel, the topics of his dreams derive from seeing a hospital and he becomes a doctor or his feelings of being completely ready to die, which he is then facing a firing squad. His dreams don’t involve the place he’s currently in since he is driving in his car when he becomes an amazing doctor at a hospital. Walter’s dreams, however, do reflect him always being a hero, except the last one. In the film, Walter’s daydreams start off from where he is at the current moment. This is shown in the scene when Walter saves his dream girl’s dog, the dream starts off from where he’s standing on the train platform.

Walter starts off daydreaming in the novel only to be woken from this state by a shocked and somewhat angry wife. His wife being mad at him because he started daydreaming while he was driving. Mrs. Mitty isn’t at all secretive that she doesn’t like her husband very much, let alone his habit of going into his own little world. As well as the novel, Walter is made fun of for his daydreaming by his co-workers in the movie. His new co-worker Ted especially picks on him, he calls Walter, “Major Tom”, relating to the song “Space Oddity” by David Bowie. Tom even goes so far as to throw a paper clip at Walter when he’s daydreaming to see if he’ll even