Dynamic and Static Characters in Short Stories Choose three different characters from this list.
• Della (“The Gift of the Magi”)
• The young boy (“The Heavenly Christmas Tree”)
• Rainsford (“The Most Dangerous Game”)
• Mama (“Everyday Use”)
• Waverly (“Rules of the Game”)
• Walter Mitty (“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”)
Using the spaces below, explain why each of the three characters you have chosen is either a dynamic or a static character. You may reference the short stories we have read so far to gather your conclusions, but your responses should be in your own words.
1. [Type Character #1’s name here]: [Type your response here]
2. [Type Character #2’s name here]: [Type your response here]
3. [Type Character #3’s name here]: [Type your response here]

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?