Walter Mitty Movie And Book Comparison

Even though The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was written in two different mediums, there are many similarities and variations between the two. The movie and short story both tell the reader his daydreams he experiences. The movie is more suitable because it's easier to comprehend what's happening. The movie is written in a modern time period rather when the short story was taking place in the 1930s. For this reason , the movie is stronger than the written version. For example, in the movie, it shows how he works at Life and is under pressure of finding negative number twenty-five from his boss. (Stiller). On the other hand, they're alike because Walter is also under constant pressure from his wife to stop daydreaming. His wife is always telling

him what he needs to do and how do it like he's her slave or something. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty also has differences. The daydreams Walter experiences are different in the movie, then the ones in the short story. A daydream in the short shorty was when he was dreaming about driving a navy hydroplane. It says, " Walter Mitty drove on towards Waterbury in silence, the roaring of the SN202 through the worst storm in twenty years of Navy flying fading in the remote, intimate airways of his mind. " (Thurber 626) Also in the movie, it goes through an experience where he imagines Sheryll singing Major Tom , acoustically , to him while he runs to get on a helicopter. The two bi h follow the sequence of daydreams, but the thoughts are different events.