Faith Overcash In Tobias Wolff's Hunters In The Snow

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Faith Overcash The story Hunters in the Snow written by Tobias Wolff, focuses around three main characters. These three characters are extremely diverse. Although, they all fit into one simple story and, if you analyse each based on his own character base, you will see exactly how diverse they actually are. The first of the three is, Frank. Frank is secretive saying “ that's between us… That's confidential, you keep your mouth shut.” (paragraph 21, page 88) He is also brutally honest, when he exploits his opinion, “All i can say is it’s the first diet I’ve ever heard of where you gain weight from it.”(paragraph 33, page 88) In contrast to that, he is caring “Frank close his eyes then looked down at Kenny again, “Where does it hurt?” (paragraph

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