Truffle Shuffle

16th century oil painting of the same name

I found it ironic that the author of Hunters in the Snow is named Tobias Wolff.  Obviously a wolf is a dangerous animal hunted in the snow, and I wasn't positive, but I had a hunch that the nickname Tub may have derived from Tobias.  Unfortunately, after a little research, I discovered Tobias looked more like an elderly Steve Jobs than a whiny, passive-aggresive fatty, so that theory was soon thrown out the window.

To combat this shameful loss of interest in the relevancy of the story, I went searching across the Internet for ways in which I could connect the work to things that are fun.  Naturally, I was still hung up on the Tub character and as such picked up this clip from The Goonies.  Enjoy!

In all seriousness, all three of the main characters (Kenny, Frank, and Tub) are jerks in their own right, yet somehow the author still makes you feel sympathetic towards each one at some time or another in the story.  Oh, and Kenny killed a dog.