Mountain+Journey-Character+Sketch

__** A Mountain Journey **__ __** By Howard O'Hagan **__

In "// A Mountain Journey//", you can clearly see that the protagonist, Dave Conroy, is one stubborn character ; who is also persevering, and an indecisive protagonist. Dave is one of the most stubborn characters one has seen from reading a book or a story, and one may say he will most likely not give in to other people's opinions or advice in other cases. One may also so that Dave was not very popular in his village as people will most likely infer that he was very stubborn in many other situations other before this occurring event, as this would not make the best impression on anyone if Dave made all the decisions without anyone else's say advice in the topic. Many people who have read this short story must think that his stubbornness is the reason he died, but even he as a character knew that as "...he should have made camp two miles back in the timber and crossed the divide in the morning." A character trait that he strongly possessed was being indecisive. In the whole story, Dave could not make one final decision, he always seemed to decide on something else that was not exactly right. He got too eager to finish the job, even if it m eant overexerting himself to that far of an extent. Several times he regretted his decision of not making camp to rest. Even so, he still refused to take one break for the sake of himself. This was another personality trait that led to his downfall, which caused him to fail and also resulted in his death. Although he did not make the right decision, one may say that the majority of peoples' decision-making skills would not be as good as this was a life and death situation. This particular protagonist's strongest character trait is that he is persevering. In many different parts of the short story, he shows many ways of perseverance. Dave Conroy not only persevered physically, but also mentally, although he did mentally fail in the end as "The world was growing small, dying slowly in the darkness of the sunlight." One may say he did not exactly fail physically, but he was mentally dominated and therefore did not make the right decision. Even until the very end; he was stubborn and indecisive, but most of all, persevering. These had all made a strong impact of the outcome as they all had to do with his mentality, which was the main reason he had failed his "Mountain Journey". In reality, many people in Dave's situation would have failed a good deal earlier than Dave Conroy.

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