In both the story and the movie Walter Mitty displays many standout qualities that he does not possess in his everyday life. Walter is very stalwart and handles all of his situations with great aplomb in his fantasies. Walter does many great things that he would never even consider doing in his real life (e.g. standing up for himself, going on adventures, and being a good leader). In all of Walters fantasies, he makes himself very important or noticeable, unlike how he is in his own life. However, there are also some differences, in the movie the majority of his fantasies involved Sheryl, and in the story, most of them were about Mitty being important and adventurous. In the movie Mitty gradually become a very interesting person as his fantasies …show more content…
Walters everyday life was very different from the short story and the movie. For example, in the movie Walter traveled the word. Mitty traveled to Iceland, Greenland, Los Angeles, Afghanistan, and the Himalayas. In the short story Mitty never left town. All of his fantasies took place as he was running errands for his wife. Another difference is that Mitty was not married in the film and he was in the short story. In the short story, Mitty used his fantasies to escape from his super bossy wife. In the movie, he did not have a wife, but his new boss John Hendricks kind of takes the place of Mitty’s nagging wife. Mitty’s wife would wake him up from his fantasies, which is kind of ironic because he would go in these fantasies to get away from her. These differences change Mitty’s life. In the story, Mitty does not let his fantasies change his life like he does in the movie. In the movie, he uses these fantasies to influence his life choices. Mitty finally stands up to his nagging boss John Hendricks in the movie, but in the story, he never really stands up for himself. He does whatever his nagging wife tells him to do without any