Friday, January 22, 2021

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty's Analysis



Internal conflict: Walter Mitty in his daydreams is heroic and the leader while in real life he is a follower and not brave. 


External conflict

Man vs man: When Mitty finds several walk-on characters who remind him of his isolation of the real world. 


Man vs society: When people take him out; for example, the woman that laughs at him at the parking lot for saying “puppy biscuit”.


Man vs nature: When in his first dream he is facing a big hurricane. 


Climax: Walter's wife goes to search for Walter when he wasn't at the hotel because of another one of his dreams. 


Resolution: Walter dreams about imagining he is standing before a firing squad and bravely faces his imaginary death. 


New resolution: While he was dreaming standing before the firing squad, in the exact moment when they will shoot at him, his wife took him out of his dream, and could go to their home. 


Theme: Great imagination in face of a boring life.


Voice: This story is narrated in a 3 person point of view, this helps the reader to imagine how the dreams and the situations are going.


Mood: Humorous.


Tone: The tone in the story is one of a gentle humor.

By Andrea Parra, Step 9 Blue