If you ask anyone what cartoon character they remember the most from their childhood, chances are that the answer would probably be a small, long tailed rodent named Mickey. With 88 years of existence, Mickey Mouse has gone through many changes and still is a popular character that many people symbolize it with youth and innocence. That was exactly Walt Disney’s intention when he came up with the idea of a talking mouse. The glove wearing mouse has impacted millions of childhoods. No one back in the 1920s would have ever thought that a mouse named Mickey would become a huge hit that would last decades. America was in the roaring twenties during the birth of Mickey Mouse and the addition of the mouse, made childhoods more imaginative. Even after decades of seeing shorts and movie lenght films of Mickey and his friends, people all over the world still smile and laugh at the many misadventures he has had. Life in America during the 1920s was an eye opener for children due to Walt Disney creating a drawing that would end up coming to life on screen, later become one of America’s most famous cartoon and creating a popular character …show more content…
After the incident, “...Disney was determined to be the solo owner of all his cartoons” (Historic Missourians). On a train ride home, Disney dreamed of a talking mouse and that was when he started drawing the world famous mouse. He also claimed to have been inspired by a pet mouse he had when he worked in Missouri. Mickey was not the first choice for name Disney had for his mouse. The mouse was almost named Mortimer Mouse. Thanks to his wife, Lilian Disney, thinking that the name sounded too “Pompous”, his name was changed to Mickey. When he arrived back home in L.A. he got to work on his new idea with his brother, Roy Disney and Ub Iwerks, a drawer from his last