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    A Study Guide for Tobias Wolff's "Hunters in the Snow"
    A Study Guide for Tobias Wolff's "Hunters in the Snow"
    A Study Guide for Tobias Wolff's "Hunters in the Snow"
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    A Study Guide for Tobias Wolff's "Hunters in the Snow"

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    A Study Guide for Tobias Wolff's "Hunters in the Snow," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535825214
    A Study Guide for Tobias Wolff's "Hunters in the Snow"

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      A Study Guide for Tobias Wolff's "Hunters in the Snow" - Gale

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      Hunters in the Snow

      Tobias Wolff

      1981

      Introduction

      Hunters in the Snow is a short story by American writer Tobias Wolff. It was published in Wolff's first collection of stories, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, in 1981. In the British edition of this collection, published in 1982, Hunters in the Snow is the title story. The story is also available in Wolff's Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories (2008) and The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories (1987), edited by Daniel Halpern.

      The story is about a group of three friends, Kenny, Frank, and Tub, who go on a hunting trip during a snowstorm in Spokane, Washington. There are tensions between the three men, and when the hunt goes badly—they fail to even catch sight of any deer—the trip takes an ugly turn. Kenny gets bad-tempered and shoots a dog, and when Tub thinks Kenny is about to turn the gun on him, he shoots Kenny. As Frank and Tub attempt to get the wounded Kenny to a hospital, a series of events further reveals the tenuousness of the friendships between the men. As one of the first published stories by an acknowledged modern master of the short-story form, Hunters in the Snow is an excellent introduction to Wolff's spare, realistic, and sometimes disturbing fictional world.

      Author Biography

      Wolff was born on June 19, 1945, in Birmingham, Alabama. His mother, Rosemary, was a secretary and waitress, and his father, Arthur, was an aeronautical engineer. Wolff's parents were divorced when he was ten, and he went to live with his mother in Chinook, Washington, near Seattle. His mother remarried, but her second husband developed into an abusive stepfather, and Wolff's teenage years were troubled. He won a scholarship to the Hill School, a prestigious prep school in Pottsdown, Pennsylvania. It later turned out that the fifteen-year-old Wolff, showing a highly developed writing ability, had written all the recommendations required by the school himself. He attended the school from 1961 to 1963 and enjoyed his stay there as a

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