Chris McCandless’s Downfall Chris McCandless has shown that he is a nonconformist who rejects social norms and modern society’s standards by donating $24,000 in his college fund to OXFAM America and changing his identity from Christopher J. McCandless to Alexander Supertramp to embark on his odyssey of Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. Although McCandless’s insistence on living out his beliefs and morals make him a nonconformist, this simultaneously results him to be a stubborn person as well. McCandless proves himself to be a valuable employee when he was hired to work at Westerberg’s grain elevator in Carthage and McDonald’s in Bullhead City by willing to do any tasks no matter how unpleasant and difficult they are. However, McCandless demonstrates
