The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty By James Thurber Review

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty By James Thurber Review Worksheet Name: ____________________________ Period: _______ Date: _______ 1. Name the characters Mitty imagines himself to be. Describe the situation he creates for each of those characters. 2. Mitty drives past a hospital and imagines that he is a surgeon. What other situations lead Mitty into other dreams? 3. Give two examples of how Mitty is suddenly roused from his dreams. 4. What personality traits does Mitty possess in his dreams?

5. Compare the way Mitty was treated by people in his dreams with the way he is

actually treated in his real life. 6. Explain how the author adds humor to the story. Check Test: 1. Mr. and Mrs. Mitty ___________ into town once a week. 2. After finishing his errands, Mitty waits for his ____________ in a hotel lobby. 3. An article in a ___________ inspires Mitty’s war fantasy.

4. Mrs. Mitty makes her husband _______________ outside in the rain while she attends to a final errand.

5. At the end of the story, Mitty imagines that he is facing a ________________.