The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber

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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...

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"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"

3,494 words, approx. 12 pages

"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber Born in Columbus, Ohio, James Thurber (1894-1961) moved to New York in 1926, where he worked as a reporter, writer, editor, and cartoonist. The un... Read more

James Thurber Biographies (7)

James Grove Thurber

385 words, approx. 2 pages

James Grove Thurber (1894-1961) was an American writer and artist. One of the most popular humorists of his time, Thurber celebrated in stories and in cartoons the comic frustrations of eccentric and ... Read more

James Grove Thurber

15,031 words, approx. 51 pages

Biography EssayIn a general survey of American humor, James Thurber comes after the traditional horsesense humorists and before the black humorists of the postatomic era. His most famous and most endu... Read more

James (Grover) Thurber

2,076 words, approx. 7 pages

France does not figure prominently as a subject in James Thurber's works. Yet his three longest European sojourns--from November 1918 to March 1920, from May 1925 to May 1926, and from May 1937 to Aug... Read more

James (Grover) Thurber

14,253 words, approx. 48 pages

In a general survey of American humor, James Thurber comes after the traditional horse-sense humorists and before the black humorists of the postatomic era. His most famous and most enduring work deve... Read more

James (Grover) Thurber

2,834 words, approx. 10 pages

The name of James Thurber is immediately recognized by the majority of Americans as the author of hundreds of humorous essays and the artist of innumerable cartoons featured in the New Yorker during t... Read more

James (Grover) Thurber

7,170 words, approx. 24 pages

Next to Mark Twain, James Thurber is the most critically acclaimed humorist in American literary history. Like Twain he first established his reputation as a journalist. By the time he died, he was re... Read more

James Thurber

6,039 words, approx. 21 pages

Called "one of the world's greatest humorists" by Alistair Cooke in the Atlantic, James Thurber was one of the mainstays of the New Yorker magazine, where his short stories, essays, and numerous carto... Read more

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The Literature Elements of "the Secret Life of Walter Mitty

573 words, approx. 2 pages

The story by James Thurber, I believe is the best written short story in this unit. I chose the literary elements such as, indirect characterization, narration, and the theme. In "The Secret Life of ... Read more

"the Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber

734 words, approx. 3 pages

"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is a story about a man who prefers to live in his fantasies rather than dealing with real life. The story begins when a military officer shouts an order for his crew... Read more

Living a Lie in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and "The Lady With The Dog"

926 words, approx. 4 pages

It is very difficult for someone to live a lie, pretending to be happy with the way things are when in all actuality they are not. Sometimes people feel helpless to change the things that are happenin... Read more

Cause and Effect: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

805 words, approx. 3 pages

"If you have a problem, it is better to talk it over with some one."(A saying). In the short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber, the main character Walter Mitty, due to incompete... Read more

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