If we compare Chris' relationship with his family and the people he interacted with a Emory, to his relationships with the people he met on the road there is a significant contrast between the two. McCandless was withdrawn and seemed anti-social with his parents and the people at Emory. McCandless was not always withdrawn from his parents but ever since he revisited his childhood home in California and learned that his father was living a double life while stilled married to McCandless' mother, Billie, he fathered another son with Marcia. McCandless did not inform his parents of his knowledge instead "he chose instead to make a secret of his dark knowledge and express his rage obliquely, in silence and sullen withdrawal"( ). McCandless was
