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1. How is the narrative of True Grit related? Is the story told in first, second or third person? In what tense is the story told?

True Grit is related from a first-person past tense point of view. The narrator, Mattie Ross, retells the story of how he went to avenge her father’s murder at the age of fourteen. Mattie is now an older woman looking back several years in time.

2. How was Mattie Ross’s father killed in the narrative? Where was he killed?

Mattie’s father, Frank Ross, was in Fort Smith, Arkansas, when his employee Tom Chaney shot him. There was supposedly an argument regarding Tom Chaney getting into a bar brawl. When Frank tried to stop him, Tom Chaney shot Frank in the street.

3. What was stolen from Mattie Ross’s father when he was killed?

According to Mattie, Tom Chaney stole $150 in cash from Frank Ross that was his remaining sum after purchasing ponies in Fort Smith. He was also robbed of his horse, Judy, as well as two gold coins that were a wedding gift from Mattie’s mother in California.

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