![]() ![]() His fantasies aren’t a virtue they are endemic of a life lived in resignation. This Mitty daydreams about taking risks instead of actually taking them. ![]() Stiller’s Walter Mitty (Stiller himself in a charmingly dour role) is a different kind of man, and his “secret life” serves a different purpose in his real life and in the story. Thurber’s Mitty maintains his innate sense of adventure in a world of overshoes, snow chains, and parking lot attendants. Thurber’s story, which you can read in its entirety here, concerns a man who, by the virtue of daydreaming, escapes the mundanity of everyday life (exemplified most uncharitably by his nagging wife). ![]() The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Ben Stiller’s latest directorial effort, is based on a (very) short story by the same name by American humorist James Thurber originally published in the New Yorker in 1937. ![]()
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