Chris is mad at his father for potentially destroying their family with an affair and then attempting to keep it from him because he held his father at a higher standard than everyone else. For an example, when Krakauer tells the reader, “Whenever Walt McCandless, in his stern fashion, would dispense a fatherly admonishment to Chris, Carine, or their half siblings, Chris would fixate on his father’s own less than sterling behavior many years earlier and silently denounce him as a sanctimonious hypocrite” (122). Chris’ father made …show more content…
For example, when the author tells us, “To symbolize the complete severance from his previous life, he even adopted a new name. No longer would he answer to Chris McCandless; he was now Alexander Supertramp, master of his own destiny,” (23). Chris was starting over completely. Creating a new name for himself was just the beginning of him leaving civilization to become the person he had always wanted to be. Another example is when Alex Supertramp told Mr. Franz at his campsite, “You don’t need to worry about me. I have a college education. I’m not destitute. I’m living like this by choice,” (51). Chris didn’t leave his family for attention, he left because he wanted to. His reasoning for leaving was just to start fresh and become the person he had always wanted to