Indefinable Motives - A revised essay on the short story "Hunters in the Snow" - BY: Tobias Wolff

Indefinable Motives
"Hunters in the Snow", a compelling story, gives readers the opportunity of exploring the author's pessimistic views while enjoying his humor. An open-minded reader is likely to learn from the author's experiences. Tobias Wolff leaves readers pondering as he not only chooses the most pessimistic turn of events, but closes this writing with a dismal ending. "Wolff's works are often humorous and piercing exposes of hypocrisy; his characters are generally failures, people with unfulfilled hopes whose loneliness leads them to behave dishonorably" (Ross 445). The dishono…