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56 pages 1 hour read

Tobias Wolff

Hunters in the Snow

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1981

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Essay Topics

1.

Discuss “Hunters in the Snow” in the context of Dirty Realism.

2.

What role does irony play in “Hunters in the Snow”?

3.

What are the key differences between the Kenny and Frank alignment and the Frank and Tub alignment?

4.

What, if any, moral commentary does Wolff convey?

5.

What roles does dialogue play in “Hunters in the Snow”?

6.

If Tub is not ashamed of his weight, only of his lies, why does Tub lie about the reason he is overweight to begin with?

7.

What role does nature play in “Hunters in the Snow”?

8.

Compare and contrast “Hunters in the Snow” with another work of Dirty Realism.

9.

Compare and contrast “Hunters in the Snow” with another work by Tobias Wolff.

10.

How does the setting of “Hunters in the Snow” affect the plot?

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