"Hunters in the Snow"

"Frank roused himself.  'Kenny,' he said.  He bent down and put his gloved hand on Kenny's brow. 'You shot him,' he said to Tub," (pg 193).

Let me just throw out two things that I will be basing all of my thoughts on, but if they are wrong, then my whole post is set to fail (not grade wise hopefully, but like, analysis wise).

• The climax of the story is Tub shooting Kenny.
• Frank is a dynamic character.

Now that this is out of the way, I will go on to explain these two sentences importance to question number four and why my group was correct in calling Frank the most likable character (Note: I am doing this on my desktop that uses Internet Explorer which does not have spell check).

I suppose I should have pointed out that my answer to the question is that Frank was the character most changed by the climax of the story, but I assumed that this was going to be implied by the bullets (no pun intended).

In the beginning of the novel, Tub was waiting on the curb, alone, while Kenny decides to fake running him over with the car while Frank sits in the passenger seat.  Kenny and Frank go on to hunt together and leave Tub on his own on the other side of the river as they joke around and laugh (Why would they be laughing when Kenny was so angry about hunting nothing unless they were joking about Tub?).  Up to this point, Frank has said very little of his own thoughts, but rather just plays along with Kenny's point of view.

This is where I point out that Frank was the only of the three not directly involved in the shooting.

Post-shooting, Tub and Frank are now always seen together while Kenny is stuck being the one alone in the back of the truck.  This may seem trivial since Kenny was shot and all, but the relationship shared between Tub and Frank during these times goes on to show that Frank almost matured or had a relook at things when he saw his friends feud.  While Frank was with Kenny, he never spoke his mind and Kenny even black mailed Frank about his affair, but Frank had the guts to confide the affair with Tub after the encounter.

Frank forcing Tub to eat the pancakes was not a "cold-hearted" or "mean" encounter by any means in my interpretation.  What better way to say, "We all have faults and thank you for confiding them with me, but I will never judge you by it," than by letting Tub be himself afterwards?