The Secret Life of Walter Mitt

A prevalent habit of human kind is to pretend to be someone we are not – to mask our true selves. This is sometimes possible through false identities. In the case of Walter Mitty in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, he makes it possible to live the life he longs to live. This is achieved through numerous dream sequences in which he takes on new personalities and mannerisms. The qualities that are apparent in most, …

…however, prove him to be a man who is demanding, repetitive, skilled and confident, without even a slightest resemblance to his real-life character. Walter Mitty manages to accomplish what so many of us can only dream of – to live another, more desirable life. He does this without performing the task that mankind seems to be so afraid of – change. Mitty attains a more desirable lifestyle with his own kind of mask – a mask of imagination.