For my creative response, I decided to write a series of letters between the characters of Tobias and Arthur Wolff. This seemed appropriate given that the text provides a range of viewpoints in the form of letters, notably ones of serious and important matters. I thought it would be interesting to view the memoir from a new perspective of Arthur Wolff as well as the reoccurring perspective of the adolescence, Tobias Wolff. Throughout the memoir Arthur Sr. was an elusive father-figure and would only be mentioned under false pretences, which ironically are the two most prominent themes throughout Jack’s own accounting of his past. In the era of 1950’s America it was not acceptable under the ideal societal definition of ‘masculinity’ to express
