Also, the inherent feature of such individual is to convince other people that one is nothing in real life, and he acts in an improper manner. Such individual spends, or even more wastes, the lion’s share of time in the heroic daydreams. This word has entered the English language, and it characterizes a person, who is not tending to achieve the real results, and to live in accordance with the rules and environment of real life. Walter Mitty, the main hero of the story has got its derivative word “Mittyesque”. The men of literature consider it as one of the authors’ “acknowledged masterpieces”. Also, this work of literature has been republished in the James Thurber: Writings and Drawings in 1996, and, after that, it has become the most commonly and frequently read and discussed short storey of American literature. In addition, this story has been the first one in the author book My World and Welcome to It, which has been published in 1942. It is one of the commonly known works of the author, which has been published for the first time in The New Yorker in 1939. The author of this story is James Thurber. The first one to be discussed is "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty". The research paper would have the following stricture: analysis of each word of the literature individually and having an integrated conclusion of the core differences, and common features of the stories.įirst of all, in the scopes of this paper it is important to rely on the background of the chosen works of literature. Their story discloses the racial discrimination, which implies giving a birth to a child with the representative of another race as the illegal action, and murdering this child by the white person as an “acceptable” action. The second story analyzes the negative impact of the Apartheid rule on social life, after the example of the particular social members.
so the impact of negative social environment on the life of individual is a central idea of the story. The core difference between these works of literature is that the first story is mainly based on the personal problems of the individual in the particular society, which are the lack of communication, rejection by other members of the society etc.
The paper would analyze the following works of literature: "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber, and "Country Lovers" by Nadine Gordimer. The research paper is dedicated to the analysis of the two literature works the core purpose of paper is to analyze the contents and comparison of the general ideals, tolls, ad trends, inherent in each particular work of literature.
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