Reanna Duff Tobias Wolff’s “Hunters in the Snow” indulges its readers in a fascinating story of three men, who are more or less friends, with the different personalities of the characters and giving impressions that last for weeks after the story is read. This is especially true with one such character called Frank. Throughout this little story Frank emits a secretive aura from himself, in which he keeps a tidbit of information from his friends.. He’s a pedophile. Even so, he appears as a sensible man and is able to make decisions and think things through quite clearly. So, frank has a secret? Of course he does. This dark secret is hidden deep within his mind save one other person, Kenny, until later in the story when he spills his disturbing secret with Tub, another character from the story. We first learn about Frank's secretive nature when kenny brings up the babysitter. Frank replies “ that is between us.”( 88,21). And when Tub questions Frank about his
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We know Frank is having some kind of affair when Kenny brings up the babysitter, and get the hint that she’s underage when Kenny calls her “that little piece of jailbait” (91,69). The girl is only fifteen years old, but don’t worry she’ll “be sixteen in May.” as if that makes any difference (96,186).Of course, Frank doesn’t see anything wrong with this, and tries to explain how society has broken people up into categories, trying to justify his reasoning for going for this girl. The example of Romeo and Juliet surfaces during the conversation. “Juliet was only thirteen.”(96, 186). This doesn’t help his argument because Juliet was actually sixteen, and romeo was maybe eighteen or nineteen years old, not a fully grown, older man. He compares the current time in the story to decades past, reasoning that “a hundred years ago she’d have been an old maid.” (96, 186). Obviously society's standards of toleration have changed if Kenny refers to her as
We know Frank is having some kind of affair when Kenny brings up the babysitter, and get the hint that she’s underage when Kenny calls her “that little piece of jailbait” (91,69). The girl is only fifteen years old, but don’t worry she’ll “be sixteen in May.” as if that makes any difference (96,186).Of course, Frank doesn’t see anything wrong with this, and tries to explain how society has broken people up into categories, trying to justify his reasoning for going for this girl. The example of Romeo and Juliet surfaces during the conversation. “Juliet was only thirteen.”(96, 186). This doesn’t help his argument because Juliet was actually sixteen, and romeo was maybe eighteen or nineteen years old, not a fully grown, older man. He compares the current time in the story to decades past, reasoning that “a hundred years ago she’d have been an old maid.” (96, 186). Obviously society's standards of toleration have changed if Kenny refers to her as