Talk:Walter Mitty

Please see Talk:Anthony Berkeley Cox for a discussion of the reference to that author. Who can help? <KF> 17:00, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

please make the article clearer; i don't understand what would make one a "Walter Mitty"-type character. what traits, precisely!?!?!?!?! 165.82.104.116 15:22, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Basically someone who over-exaggerates realism or daydreams that things that are perceived as impossible are possible to the extermities. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.101.106.176 (talk) 19:50, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Mike Myers is working on an adaptation: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0359950/combined. 76.90.107.98 (talk) 08:02, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Shouldn't this be merged with the article about the short story itself? Technomad (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 01:54, 30 January 2009 (UTC).

No, the phenomenon surely existed before the story was written, and applies to people who've never heard of the story. There's little literary business to do with the phenomenon, except for the obvious naming. 92.40.254.117 (talk) 20:53, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Isn't "My First Hundred Years..." the citation? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.67.114.195 (talk) 07:31, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Well no, that is the book that would be cited but it isn't a citation. See {{cite}}. Merely stating that somewhere in the books something is said doesn't support WP:V. Toddst1 (talk) 12:35, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

plenty of connections --Penbat (talk) 21:01, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

You haven't evaluated those "connections". Sloppy justification. Farrajak (talk) 22:07, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Did Thurber’s character have the middle name, or is this an invention for the new movie? Useddenim (talk) 21:29, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

I've removed a bunch of what appears to be WP:COATRACK / WP:BLP violations as it relates to the British armed services. Frankly they amounted to a bunch of weakly or unsourced character assassinations. Exceptional claims require exceptional sourcing and that was not at all present. Toddst1 (talk) 09:08, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Should't there be a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.D._(Scrubs) J.D. (Scrubs)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.230.56.109 (talk) 09:52, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Why? Toddst1 (talk) 15:53, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

At the moment, the article contains an unsourced and what appears on its face to be a defamatory claim about the British politician Iain Duncan Smith, saying that he "lied" about his military record. 2A02:1203:ECB0:DA80:B0EA:DEF4:5C61:A511 (talk) 23:44, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

 Fixed. Useddenim (talk) 00:35, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

By way of example, was Marilyn Monroe a 'Walter Mitty' character? After all, she wasn't born with that name, she wasn't born blonde and she made up endless stories about her childhood and past etc. Or is it OK to do all of those things so long as a person then, does, become "succesful"? Perhaps the article needs to make clear the difference. If there is one. 92.184.110.194 (talk) 21:03, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

"Thurber loosely based the character, a daydreamer, John Sneddon"

prob need a "on" somewhere in there

need an "on" in there somewhere.... 2600:1700:DF50:A1F0:C8E6:570C:253D:4408 (talk) 22:58, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

The character and plot section states that "there is a darker and more significant message underlying the text, leading to a more tragic interpretation of the Mitty character."

If there is a "message" underlying the text, then we should be able to answer: 1. how we know about this message 2. what is the content of the message

Neither point is answered, and so the claim comes across as unjustified. It'd be more accurately phrased as: "some wikipedia contributors have interpreted the Mitty character thusly...". There is no apparent justification for stating that this interpretation is due to an "underlying message". Wretched Stench (talk) 23:31, 10 March 2026 (UTC)