Hunters in the Snow

Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolff was extremely interesting.  Frank: a hippie.  Tub: a lier who is obsessed with food. Kenny: a sly individual who enjoys keeping secrets and causing conflicts between people.  Referring to question one, sympathy expands and evolves as the story moves on.  Initially, we feel sympathy for Tub. He's mocked and bludgeoned for his supposed gland problem.  We also have an initial hate for Kenny that accompanies the sympathy we feel for Tub.  We feel sympathy for Tub until we shoots Kenny and admits that he has no gland problem at all.  Kenny, the one shot, invokes sympathy through cries and pleas for help as illustrated in this quote,"It was a joke. Oh!(193, Wolff). We see that Kenny was simply being a juvenile, immature person who inadvertently makes Tub shoot him.  Overall, I feel sorry for Kenny as well as Tub in the end.  Kenny is stuck in the truck at the mercy of two people who obviously do not like him too much.