Pop Fisher In The Natural

In “The Natural,” the character Pop Fisher is the coach and thus “king” of the “knights,” the ball team that the main character of the book joins and plays on. Furthermore, throughout the book he is mentioned to have a sort of athlete’s foot on his hands and that the Knight’s field also seems similar to a wasteland that would correspond with Pop’s hands’ condition, very similar to the “Tale of the Fisher King.” Other than his condition and relevance to the tale mentioned before, he is also known to be quick to judge, as he benches Roy for his first few games of being on the team, thinking of him as old and most likely not a good player. Moreover, Pop is also known to be bitter and sad because when he was a player himself he had made his team lose because of a “bad” ball. King Arthur is a well-known king from the well-known tale of “The Sword in the Stone,” but the variation depicted in “Once Upon a Time” is not that. …show more content…
The main and most apparent aspects are the ones stated in their backgrounds being a “failed” attempt at success, a connection of their conditions and their land, and their true feelings and attitude at the beginning where they meet the main character or characters. Moreover, both also attain false hopes of regaining success: Pop Fishers hope being Roy and Arthur’s being a revealed magical relic, which is said to be able to fix Excalibur, but in truth only makes it appear to be fixed. Each has similar starting points, ones of foretold success, failed endeavors, and false hopes, attempts that ultimately fall apart and aren’t really redeeming of their failures; however, there is dissimilarity between the two, their endings. Their endings are very different. Pop Fisher’s being a letdown as Roy betrays him and he is forced to lose yet another pennant game with no silver lining to it, while King Arthur’s is also a failure and dead but now governs hell as its new