Who wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'?

Answer 1

"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" tells the story of the aging Walter Mitty on a trip into town with his overbearing wife, Mrs. Mitty. Walter is inept at many things; he is an absent-minded driver, he can't handle simple mechanical tasks, and he forgets things easily. What makes Walter exceptional is his imagination.

While Walter goes through a day of ordinary tasks and errands, he escapes into a series of romantic fantasies, each spurred on by some mundane reality. As he drives his car, he imagines he is commanding "a Navy hydroplane" through a terrible storm (1). When he rides past a hospital, he imagines he is a world-famous surgeon saving a VIP's life. When he hears a newsboy shouting about a trial, he imagines he is a crack shot being interrogated in the courtroom. As he waits for his wife to finish at the hairdresser's, Walter sees pictures of German plane and imagines he is a British pilot willing to sacrifice his life for his country. Lastly, as Mitty waits outside against a wall for his wife to buy something in a drugstore, he fantasizes that he is a bold and brave man about to be shot by a firing squad. The story ends with the inscrutable Walter Mitty awaiting this romantic death.

Answer 2

"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" was written by James Thurber and first published in 1939. The story follows the daydreams of the character Walter Mitty as he escapes his mundane life through various elaborate fantasies.

Answer 3

The short story is about how Walter Mitty deals with the mundane nature of his life by delving into fantasy.

The movie is more complex. It is how Walter Mitty loses his confidence in reality and himself by no longer knowing what is real and what is fantasy - but then on finding the dutch shoes jewelery in his pocket instead of the wedding ring becomes convinced of the reality of his one true love and rushes off to save her from the gangsters.

Answer 4

The short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" was written by James Thurber in 1939, and published that year in the New Yorker magazine. The script for the movie "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" starring Danny Kaye, with a script by Ken Englund and Everett Freedman, seems to have been written about 5 minutes before production began in early 1947.

Answer 5

James Thurber wrote "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty."

Answer 6

It was published in The New Yorker in 1939 and published as a short story in 1941.

Answer 7

James Thurber, who also wrote the suddenly popular 'The Catbird Seat.'

Answer 8

It was published in the The New Yorker on March 18,1939, and in his book 'My World and Welcome to It' on 1942.

Answer 9

James Thurber