Literature into Film “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”

Respond to the following questions AFTER you have read the short story and viewed the film.

1. Jot down the basic plot of the short story and the film.
2. How are the plots similar? List and explain five similarities.
3. How are the plots different? List and explain five differences.
4. Characterize Walter Mitty from the short story and the film.
5. What significant differences are evident in the characterizations? List and explain three things.
6. What ideas are taken from the short story and repeated in the film? Think of Mitty’s dreams and the sounds used.
7. What did you enjoy about the film version of the story? Provide four details.
8. How would you alter the short story for a modern production?
9. Where would you set a modern film version? Include a time and a place and explain your choices.
10. The last line of the story reads “Walter Mitty the undefeated, inscrutable (mysterious) to the last.” How is this an appropriate line for an adaptation?