My reaction to this:
“Some readers admired the boy immensely for his courage and noble ideals; others fulminated that he was a reckless idiot, a wacko, a narcissist who perished out of arrogance and stupidity – and was undeserving of the considerable media attention he received.”
I agree with the second statement. Chris McCandless was an arrogant, insane man who thought he was invincible in everything he did. He was foolish to go out into the wild thinking he could survive, and in my opinion he thought too highly of himself and of his abilities. How he journeyed in the wild was rather self-pitying and "tragic hero" like.
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