The meek Mitty has left a mark on American popular culture as enduring, perhaps, as “tertiary obstreosis of the ductal tract” - a fictional disease that “Dr.” Mitty helps treat in one of his daydreams. Thurber had reached the height of his literary fame and success when Walter Mitty was published, said Jared Gardner, a professor and the director of pop-culture studies at Ohio State University. The tale - a brief, humorous account of the inner fantasy life of an outwardly timid character - gained even more fans when it was reprinted in 1942 in the Thurber compilation My World - and Welcome to It. Still, those few hundred lines struck a chord in the American psyche when published in 1939 in The New Yorker. The new movie, like the Kaye version, adds its own twists, if only because the Thurber story runs just five pages - barely 2,000 words.
The fictional protagonist of the classic short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, written by Columbus-born author James Thurber, is featured in a major Hollywood film opening on Christmas Day.īen Stiller reprises the title role that Danny Kaye played in the original film, from 1947. Walter Mitty would have been thrilled, perplexed and undoubtedly a bit flummoxed by the interest that surrounds him to this day.
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