Hunters in the Snow

Answer in complete sentences and use text-based references (page numbers and/or  quotes) to support your answers.

1. Contrast the culture of hunting as you know it and the culture of hunting as Wolff presents it. What point do you think Wolff is by making by creating this contrast?

2. What do Tub's overeating and Frank's interest in the babysitter have to do with the way they treat Kenny after he has been shot?   How are the three men characterized and contrasted from each other?  What do they share?

3. Describe the TONE of “Hunters in the Snow”.  What would you say is the THEME?

4. The final plot twist in "Hunters in the Snow" comes in the last two sentences of the story.

Here the narrator speaks directly to the reader, giving us information the characters don’t know. How is this an appropriate conclusion to the story? What final statement is being made about the characters?   Is it ironic?

HOMEWORK:   Read Wideman's   "Fever" for Friday