Friendship In Hunters In The Snow By Tobias Wolff

The story of “Hunters in the Snow” by Tobias Wolff, makes a person wonder what exactly friendship means to them. Each one of the characters has a certain trait that leads them to betray one other. They try to make only the strongest one survive.The story opens up with three friends going on their typical routine. The names are Frank, Kenny, and Tub. In the course of the story, there are numerous moments of tension and arguments hunting that expose the burdens of each man: they are all selfish and conceited. Through his writing in “Hunters in the Snow,” Wolfe is conveying that the ultimate fault of mankind is egotism and the lack of deliberation given to others. For the period of the story, there are several occurrences which demonstrates

By doing so, Kenny is showing one of his careless sides; a side that is neither concerned about hurting others nor himself. In his view, his entertainment comes before anything else; later, injuring Tub was never on his mind. In addition, he also ruthlessly insults Tub about his weight when Kenny knows that it is both a sensitive and upsetting subject matter for Tub. Frank is also very self-centered since he is willing to leave his wife for their fifteen year old babysitter, who is barely half way done with high school; “Frank tells Tub all about his affair with the 15-year-old babysitter”(Hannah). The third main character, Tub, is also quite narcissistic because he becomes enormously defensive when it comes to his weight since he allows Kenny’s fake consensus to offend him example“tub's protests he orders four orders of pancakes with plenty of butter and syrup. When the food arrives, he insists that Tub eat all of it”(Constantakis); therefore, Tub is big headed given that he is obsessed with the way he looks. As the story of Hunters in the Snow, progresses, the egotistical behaviors of the three gentlemen become even more deceptive given the lack of sympathy when Kenny is

It is about during this time when Frank confides in Tub about his decision to leave his wife for another woman; but, this “woman” that Frank has become so fixed on abandoning his wife for is only fifteen years old. However, neither age nor the damage to his happy family are worrying Frank. He, on the other hand, has only one thing in mind: living happily ever after with his teenage babysitter, Juliet Miller. In simple terms, Frank is not acknowledging the consequences that will come about if he were to go through with this act. Frank is not even thinking about how much this decision will impact his children. Thus, Frank is paying more attention to his wants and needs, rather than paying more attention to his children. He is a very selfish person. In the end, Wolfe shows his arrogant behavior in society through this short story. The selfishness of the characters is a representation of humanity given that people are motivated to do more for themselves than for others. In this day in age, the populations of the world seem to have become overtaken by the concepts of power, money, and beauty. In other words it has come to the point where people are more likely to do something for someone else if they receive something in return; in basic terms, society is enormously self-seeking and Tobias Wolfe emphasizes that message through his story, particularly when he kills off Kenny at the end. In this fictional work, Kenny was the least egotistical character,