Geoffrey Wolff

To begin with, Geoffrey and Tobias Wolff’s lives were filled with misfortune, misery, and abuse. In addition to this, the brothers also went through their own form of hardship while living with their parents. Geoffrey, who lived with his father and Tobias, living with his mother. With this in mind, I will compare and contrast the central conflict behind their family issues and apply it to their work. In other words, compare Geoffrey and Tobias Wolff’s childhood and look at how it impacted them as

Tobias Wolff Tobias Wolff, a boy of a troubled childhood, and a very tough father. Tobias Wolff had no intentions of being a writer from the start; it just seemed to of popped into his life. The Amazing part about this writer is that he was not supported by anyone but himself. His father was against everything that he did, and his brother, Geoffrey, also a writer would always take his fathers side, leaving Tobias on a side of his own. “I wasn’t fair, I always took my father’s side.” Said Geoffrey

Tobias Wolff was born on June 19th, 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the second son of Arthur Samuels Wolff and Rosemary Loftus Wolff. At age five, Tobias faced a family breakup where he and his mother separated from his father and older brother, Geoffrey, due to the instability his father kept in his family life. Wolff and his mother constantly moved. They lived first in Florida, then moved to Utah in 1955, and finally settled in the Pacific Northwest, where his mother remarried a troublesome

could understand how easily Tobias Wolff conformed to the negative impacts he had grown up with. He is the equivalent of an unwritten book with the potential for success and academic achievement but tainted with abandonment and neglect. The antagonists -- Roy, Dwight, and even his own mother -- are the sources of false power and manhood he obtained which has an influence on his actions. Even with all of these influences, the young and naive Jack (a name Tobias Wolff

In the short story “The Rich Brother,” Tobias Wolff presents two brother who seem as polar opposites. One brother is wealthy and successful while the other brother is poor and alone. With the many examples of how Donald is reliant on Pete, it seems Pete in no way needs Donald. However, throughout the story Tobias Wolff illustrates that even though Donald and Pete are brothers who are completely different from one another, both depend highly on each other. In the short story, Donald’s reliance on

The book “This Boy’s Life” by Tobias Wolff is a memoir written about the author’s childhood memories and experiences. The author shows many different characters within the book. Many of them are just minor character that does not affect the author much in his life choices and thoughts throughout his growth. But there are some that acts as the protagonist and some the antagonist. One of them is Dwight, the protagonist’s or Jack’s stepfather. This character seems to be one of the characters that inhibit

Boy’s Life, by Tobias Wolff is about a boy fighting an internal battle between bad behavior and good morale; at the end of the book Toby becomes a good boy, but has many bumps in his journey. For example, when Toby and his mother move into Dwight’s house, he doesn’t tell his mother that Dwight is an abusive person. So when his mother was nearby Toby would lie and confirm “all his lying implications that we (Toby and Dwight) were pals and our life together was a good one” (99, Wolff). Toby kept quiet

is a common theme in many literary works. In his story “The Rich Brother”, Tobias Wolff shows the paradox between this rivalry and love between two brothers while also showing that someone’s material wealth does not always make them the richer person. From the religious Donald to the outwardly prosperous Pete, the differences between the brothers are evident from the start. However, by the end of the story, Wolff creates the underlying theme that Donald, who often relies on his brother for material

Throughout the book This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff, a memoir about his life, he gives us a first hand look on how he became a world renown writer. Tobias mother had a great deal of importance in Tobias’s life but it didn’t always have a positive impact. Although Rosemary loves Jack unconditionally, her irresponsibility shows how omit she really was to Jack, when making decisions that would alter his life altogether. Rosemary’s irresponsibility follows Jack and her wherever they go. She had come

In “The Rich Brother” by Tobias Wolff, Donald is the richer of the two brothers as he lives a simple, happy life and is in-tune with himself compared to the money-rich, unhappy life that Pete lives.     Donald’s everyday life, one that is not concerned by money or material goods shows the difference between him and his brother when it comes to understanding who in fact, the rich brother is.  When defining the term “rich” most of the answers refer to wealth and money.  The word “rich” is not commonly