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Walter Jackson Mitty is a fictional character in James Thurber's first short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," first published in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939, and in book form in My World—and Welcome to It in 1942. Thurber loosely based the character, a daydreamer, on himself. [1]
The name Walter Mitty and the derivative word "Mittyesque" have entered the English language, [6] denoting an ineffectual person who spends more time in heroic daydreams than paying attention to the real world, or more seriously, one who intentionally attempts to mislead or convince others that he is something that he is not.
Walter Mitty is a negative assets manager at Life magazine living alone in New York City.He chronically daydreams and has a secret crush on Cheryl Melhoff, a coworker. Walter attempts to contact Cheryl via eHarmony but eHarmony customer service agent Todd Mahar explains that Walter's account is not fully filled out: the "been there" and "done that" sections are blank.
The difference between Walter Mitty and U.S. Representative George Santos is that Mitty kept his fantasies secret. | Letters to the editor
In 2013, the apdated story of the Secret Life of Walter Mitty directed by actor Ben Stiller, originally written by James Tudor in 1939. Showcases the main character Walter as experiences maldaptive daydreaming while working in an office and regularly imagines himself in heroic situations.
Described as “the ultimate Walter Mitty character” by police, Daniel Khalife was a normal boy – but he was also especially egotistical and manipulative, which led to him playing a cynical ...
Walter Mitty (Kaye) is an "inconsequential guy from Perth Amboy, New Jersey". [3] He is henpecked and harassed by everyone in his life including his bossy mother, his overbearing, idea-stealing boss Bruce Pierce, his dimwitted fiancée Gertrude Griswold, Gertrude's obnoxious would-be suitor Tubby Wadsworth, Gertrude's poodle Queenie and her loud-mouthed mother, Mrs. Griswold.
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