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Notes-Walter Mitty, Slides of Literary Analysis

The University of Texas at Austin Literary Analysis

Title: “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”. Author: James Thurber. Page #:. Genre: Short Story. Big Question: Can truth change? Literary Analysis:.

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NAME: ________________________________________________ Date:____________ P:___

Title: “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”

Author: James Thurber

Page #:

Genre: Short Story

Big Question: Can truth change?

Literary Analysis:

• Character-

• Round Character-

• Flat Character-

• Dynamic Character-

• Static Character-

Reading Strategy:

• Author’s Purpose –

• Point of View –

Vocabulary:

• Distraught

• Insolent

• Insinuatingly

• Pandemonium

• Derisive

• Inscrutable

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NAME: ________________________________________________ Date:____________ P:___ Title: “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” Author: James Thurber Page #: Genre: Short Story Big Question: Can truth change? Literary Analysis:

Character-
Round Character-
Flat Character-
Dynamic Character-
Static Character- Reading Strategy:
Author’s Purpose –
Point of View – Vocabulary:
Distraught
Insolent
Insinuatingly
Pandemonium
Derisive
Inscrutable

Notes: The events in James Thurber’s story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” follow a pattern. Something triggers Mitty’s daydream and becomes a part of it. The daydream proceeds until something interrupts it. The daydream also tells the reader something about Walter Mitty’s character. Use the column to write what character trait is revealed from each daydream. Use the graphic organizer below to find the details that create the story’s pattern.

How does Walter’s behavior differ in his daydreams and his real life?

Daydreams-
Real Life-

Explain the difference between the way people treat Mitty in his real life and the way they treat him in his daydreams.

Daydreams-
Real Life- The Literary Analysis on your notes sheet wants you to focus on Point of View and Round and Flat Characters.

What is the point of view of this story? Why is the POV important to this story?
Is Walter Mitty a round or flat character? How do you know?

Cause Daydream Character Trait

Revealed

Interruption

The sound of the car engine reminds him of a ship’s engine. Navy hydroplane Commander Famous doctor performing surgery On the stand in the courtroom Air Force pilot firing squad None

Directions : Write one or two sentences telling why, in your opinion, James Thurber might have included each of the following details or events in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.”

Mrs. Mitty scolds her husband for driving too fast and for not wearing his gloves. He does what she tells him to do.

Walter Mitty daydreams, imagining that he is an important surgeon who repairs a piece of medical equipment and saves a patient’s life.

Walter Mitty tells his wife that he does not need overshoes, but his wife insists that he does. He buys the overshoes.

Walter Mitty daydreams, imagining that he is a heroic air force captain about to fly a two-man bomber into heavy combat by himself.

Walter Mitty daydreams, imagining himself heroically facing a firing squad – “proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last.”