Tobias Wolff is a great short fiction writer. One of the best story's he wrote is Hunters in the Snow, in this story Wolff shows how one man (Kenny) childish play, selfishness and cruelty causes him lots of pain and a slow death.
             Kenny loves playing around and making fun of his friends. At the beginning of the story he almost run over Tubs with his cab "the truck jumped the curb and kept coming, half on the street and half on the sidewalk" (139), and he almost does run him over "The truck had stopped several feet beyond where Tub had been standing" (139). That makes Tubs mad but Kenny tells him it's a joke and he tells him to drop it. Later on in the story he attempts to leave Tubs in the woods again, "when Tub crossed the last fence into the road the truck started moving. Tub had to run for it and just managed to grab hold of the tailgate and hoist himself into the bed." (143), which makes Tub angrier and threatened by Kenny, Kenny always attempts to leave Tub and forget about him but at the end the events turn around and Tub starts forgetting about him. Kenny also starts growing distance between him and his other friend Frank because whenever they would get in an argument Kenny would point out that Frank is in love with a young babysitter. "I won't say a word. Like I won't say anything about a certain babysitter" (140).
             Kenny is also a very selfish person. First he leaves his friend Tub waiting for an hour on the side of the street in the snow "I waited an hour, if you meant ten o'clock why didn't you say ten o'clock?" (140). When Tub meets with them after getting lost and they head down the road, Kenny gets mad at Tub and insults him for not noticing the sign of a deer mound, "what do you think this is, Walnuts on vanilla icing?" (142) and when Tub told him he was lost Kenny insults him again. "You were lost. Big deal" (142
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