"May Day! May Day! We're going down!" Right before impact you are awaken suddenly by a tapping on your shoulder by your teacher and a class full of laughing peers. It happens to everyone at one point or another. Every high school student has been succumbed to a wild daydreaming adventure. In the short story, "The secret life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber, a man by the name of Walter Mitty can hardly tell …showed first 75 words of 852 total…

…showed last 75 words of 852 total…two stories. Differences are noticeably large and significant when comparing these short tales. <Tab/>Though very similar indeed, these two stories are in fact very different from one another. The main characters of the two run parallel in description and action yet the plots seem to stray away from one another. "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" are two very unique and priceless pieces of American literature.