Walter often gets caught daydreaming about what kind of person he wishes to become. The most important aspect of the story: Walter’s daydreaming is a large aspect of both the film and the short story. While there are many differences from the short story to the film, the overall integrity of the plot remains intact. While Walter’s relation to his love interest differs from the story to the film, their roles in the story remain the same to fuel Walter’s daydreams. The filmmakers likely changed this element in the story in order to make the movie appeal more to the common person in 2013, and to thicken the plot. In the same way, Cheryl is one of the causes of Walter’s chronic daydreaming for example, when he daydreams about saving Cheryl and her dog from a burning apartment building.

Throughout the movie he pursues a woman he works with Cheryl Melhoff. In the movie adaptation however, Walter is single. Mitty is one of the reasons that Walter spends much of his time daydreaming to escape his wife’s constant nagging. It appears that his failing relationship with Mrs. Mitty criticises Walter for the way he did his errands.

Their relationship appears to be strained at some times, for example when Mrs. In the short story, Walter is married to who we know as Mrs. These changes were made to make Mitty’s story more interesting to the common person in 2013, and arguably made the plot more interesting. The theme of the story of Walter Mitty remained the same, however, there were a few major additions and cuts to the plot, and to the character base. 74 years later, in 2013, Thurber’s legacy was continued when the short story was adapted into a Hollywood film. In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit 'I’ll Say She Is', the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival.In 1939, James Thurber wrote a captivating story entitled The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications.

(is best known for his books 'No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous' (2005) and 'Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube' (2013).

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