Tobias Wolff frames his story Hunters in the Snow, in the countryside near Spokane, Washington, where three friends with three different personalities have decided to take a trip into the woods to hunt in cold and snowy weather. The whole story follows the hunting trip of these three friends. The reader can easily see that the cold and hostile environment is an outward expression of the way men behave towards each other. The ice-hearted Kenny is rather hostile to Tub, while Frank is cold and indifferent to Tub and his cries for help. The environment matches the characters themselves, being cold and indifferent as the author described them from the truck when they laughed at Tub's look: "You should see yourself," the driver said. “He looks like a beach ball with a hat, doesn’t he?” Isn't that right, Frank? »(48). Towards the beginning of the story, the cold and the waiting surely have an impact on the character's mood. Tub is agitated by the wait and the cold adds to it. He complains about being cold and Kenny and Frank, his friends, tell him to stop complaining, which seems very hostile. Wolff builds the story on the platform of cold weather and the impact of the cold on each character slowly builds up. Kenny and Frank walk on one side of the creek and Tub walks on the other bank. Throughout their hunting journey, they have had problems with snow, especially Tub, who tends to swim through deep snow, sometimes breaking the hard crust that supports the lighter weight of the other two men. The frozen crust collapses under his weight, so he soon stops looking for traces and only tries to follow his friends (51). Their hunt was unsuccessful, they find no sign of deer and begin to return to the trail that Tub made.