Character Analysis Of Hunters In The Snow

Have you ever read a book that continued to keep you interested in what's going to happen next? You get lost in the book trying to figure out what's going to happen before reading on. This happens often in novels that have a lot of suspense like Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” or Tobias Wolff’s “Hunters In The Snow.” The fact that they both have suspense is often the only similarity people can think of. There are many similarities and differences in them both that get ignored such as similarities and differences in the plot, theme, and characters.

The character of Tub was presented in the opening scene as someone who would not stand up for himself and was willing to be ridiculed and made fun of to be part of a group. He allowed his friends to take advantage of him by making him wait over an hour in the cold and snow, accepting this behavior without even an apology. Tub was a character with low self esteem and was embarrassed of his weight, which allows him to make excuses and lie to everyone. The assessment of Tub did not change at the end of the story. He was

Frank acts as the connection between Tub and Kenny. He is able to be an effective middleman because while not as yielding as Tub, he is much less antagonistic than Kenny. While the men have an annual hunting tradition, Frank and Tub are the ones that appear to have a longer history together. In the beginning of the story, Frank is in the center of the pecking order, above Tub but below Kenny. Despite Frank and Tub being the closer of the three, Frank tends to go along with Kenny’s pranks and insults towards Tub because of Kenny knowledge of Frank’s secret.

The other two characters are Kenny, the prankster of the group and Frank, the "intellectual" of the group, who seems like the leader of the group in the beginning of the story. Both Kenny and Tub look up to Frank and show him what seems to be undeserved respect. As we find out later on he is clearly unworthy of the respect initially given to him. The irony of the situation is that Frank becomes quickly a subordinate of Tub's will. After Tub stands up to Frank and confronts him physically about the constant bullying, Frank instantly "loses face" and starts trying to please Tub in any way possible, completely ignoring the wounded Kenny. From being the leader of the group he becomes this puppy, doing everything he can to gain Tub’s approval, as his initial friendship to Kenny seems to have evaporated or never have truly existed. This

The short story Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolff depicts three men that go on a hunting trip that changes the course of their lives. Each character lies to himself to accept his actions in his life. Kenny, Frank, and Tub need to successfully fool themselves before they can deceive anyone else. Each of the men are immature and selfish. They don't realize how their decisions impact other people's lives. They justify their lies with their own insecurities about their lifestyles. Their lies impact the situations they encounter and change their lives forever.

Ironically, at the end of the story the two guys, Tub and Frank, are bonding and supporting each other at the diner they stop at to get warmed up before the hospital, even though their other friend Kenny is in the back of the truck dying. Frank tells Kenny, “’It wouldn’t hurt so much if you just stayed put. Now we’re going to the hospital. Got that? Say it—I’m going to the hospital’” (39). Once they leave the diner and are headed back towards the hospital, Tub turns back to Frank, “’I just pulled a real boner,” he said. What’s that? I left the directions on the table back there’” (39).

Hunters in the Snow is a fictional short story written in 1981 by Tobias Wolff. The story takes place in the suburbs of Spokane, Washington. The story has three main characters, but the the story focuses more on a character named Tub. I got a hint earlier on in the story that Tub might be a little overweight because Kenny asks “You still on that diet?” I came to a conclusion that Tub certainly is overweight towards the resolution of the story when Tub slips and drops Kenny. He tumbles down to the bottom of the drive and yells “You fat moron, you aren’t good for diddly” Tub shows sensitivity because when Frank and Kenny make jokes about him being fat he gets upset and mouths back to them. I find that Frank and Tub are alike in a few ways. They are both thoughtful of other people’s feelings, for example, when Kenny would joke around with

Kenny at the start of the story drives recklessly in his truck on his way to pick up Tub. This could have been an attempt to impress Frank and to continue to mess with tub. Tubs distance from the other two friends is shown immediately when he has to ride in the bed of the truck, while Frank and Kenny are in the cab of the truck. The separation between tub and his friend’s continues to show throughout the story. An example of this is when “Kenny and Frank pulled ahead of him [Tub], to where he couldn’t even hear their voices anymore” (169). Tub continues to be separated from the group because he is the weakest of the three. Tub is the only one who continues to complain about the trip and is the worst hunter out of the other men. This only causes him to be the target for Franks and Kenny’s jokes. Tub’s experience on the trip was not what he had expected. For Frank he follows in Kenny’s path rather than tub because he would rather be like Kenny more than Tub. So when Kenny continues to follow a trail faster than Tub can keep up with he chooses to keep up with Kenny and leave Tub behind. “Cruelty a result of a lack of empathy, is apparent throughout” (Constantakis). Franks choice provokes Kenny to act out more and continue to be violent and makes Tub feel like more of an outcast.

It was the middle of October, and it was finally time for my long awaited moose hunt. I have waited ever since I was a little girl for this opportunity, and it was finally here. So, my father and I packed up our stuff and left the warmth of Phoenix. We were leaving the "Valley of the Sun" and headed for a place called Wyoming. After two days and fourteen long hours of driving, we made it to our hunting unit.

The third Saturday of November was one filled with conflicting emotions: excitement, fear, optimism, and nervousness. The screeching sound of the alarm at 4:00 a.m. initiated a sense of panic and thrill throughout me; it was the opening day of the gun deer hunting season. Within minutes, I was dressed from head to toe in bright, blaze orange that could be recognized from miles away. I reluctantly, yet willingly, climbed into the truck to head to the hunting land in Adams County, Wisconsin. My stomach felt like it was tied into knots. My mind was again flooded with conflicting emotions. I began to wonder: will I get a deer? Will I not get a deer? Will I get a buck?

Waking up before the rising sun on the morning of the hunt left me feeling groggy with my eyes slow to open and close when blinking. Being extra quiet to not wake up my mother was a main challenge, trying to tippy toe around the cabin and dodging the creaky spots in the floor. Prior to eating breakfast, I began getting dressed. Due to the fact that I was in northern Minnesota, the weather was bone chilling and the wind would seep right through your layers onto your unexpecting skin. Once I had put on my long johns, sweatpants, and long sleeve shirt with a tee shirt on top I began to make my breakfast. I had decided to have scrambled eggs that were cooked to perfection with the yolk golden mixed in with the pure snow white egg white and flakes of pepper sprinkled throughout and toast with butter melted onto the crunchy outside making it soft with homemade strawberry jam spread thick on top.

The main two people who the author really focused on the most in the story has to be Frank and Tub since both of them reveal the most information about their internal conflicts that they are facing to each other both going through things that anyone else would find not being normal at all. We will start off with Frank his internal conflicts is revealed when he is in love with his babysitter which is odd to think about it but in reality it's what he feel is best for him which his interior conflict that he faces that it is wrong for a older guy to be dating a young girl. He has not told his wife about this since he is not sure how to tell her he is lying to her which also comes full circle with the major theme of lying in the story. The next person that is going through a huge internal conflict is Tub who is going through a weight problem as the story goes on he is being called fat by Kenny he later admits that he has tried to live a healthy lifestyle by only eating an egg and a stick of celery.

This is hinted at when Tub scarfs down two sandwiches and cookies when they were hunting. Through the story, Tub gained confidence to confront his friends and the courage to reveal his secret (86-99).

Everyone kills, and everyone eats. Not everyone eats what they kill, but these remain two of the most intimate forms of communing with our environment, whether we recognize them as such, or not. Almost 40 000 Americans are killed each year as the result of homicidal, accidental, and suicidal uses of guns; in all, Americans wielding guns intimidate, wound, and kill hundreds of thousands every year. These were the kinds of ideas impressed upon me as I grew up in my urban home: Guns were beasts, as were knives, arrows, spears, indeed anything could become a weapon if held in a particular way. We sprayed each other with the hose instead of water guns, and spent many long hours as a family "communing with nature" through long walks on the

“Hunters in the Snow” is about three men who go deer hunting on a very