Hunters in the Snow

Just as kids have the desire to be accepted by their peers, adults also have the same yearning to be accepted by the people around them. Tub, Frank, and Kenny in the short story “Hunters in the Snow” written by Tobias Wolff are pushed to murder from their desire for acceptance by their peers. Through the character’s actions and statements Wolff reveals the extreme measures in which adults will go to, striving to be accepted by others.
As with children, adults also display different behaviors to be accepted by their peers. Although, Frank felt Kenny was trustworthy, he later learned that he was deceitful. Kenny clearly portrays one who is deceitful in order to get the attention he feels he deserves. This is obvious when he says to Frank, “’I won’t say a word. Like I won’t say anything about a certain babysitter’”(188). Kenny broke his confidentiality with Frank by mentioning this in front of Tub. This was an act of getting noticed and making himsel...