Walter Mitty
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It’s not difficult to predict how Sonny’s arc will curve: It’s a Walter Mitty story, but also an Ugly Duckling story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The attorney compared him to Walter Mitty, the character with the boring office job who escapes into elaborate imaginative worlds — a defense Sexton hated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2025
He was described as a "Walter Mitty" character who had changed his name several times and had 32 convictions over 15 years in three countries.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2024
"Interstellar used an ice glacier as a stand in for another planet and then there was Batman Begins, Game of Thrones and the Secret Life of Walter Mitty with Ben Stiller," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2023
“To aging Walter Mitty types like myself, Dick Bass was an inspiration,” Seaborn Beck Weathers explained in a thick East Texas twang during the trek to Everest Base Camp last April.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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