This passage is set briefly after meeting Ron Franz, a character who offers many opportunities for Chris McCandless to start a functional and usual life, just like many other characters on his journey. The equivalent of abandoning the troubled Ron Franz was the case where a reader can feel that this irresponsibility of McCandless is a shellfish level of quality evident in five-year-old kindergartners. The progression of McCandless's journey allows the reader to hold this thought more because it just seems like he has this cycle of progressing along a different path and then abandoning it for his inevitable death in Alaska. And his personality can be considered irresponsible, but the result of his irresponsibility is selfishness, meaning he doesn't allow people to take paths to simpler goals with Chris attached to him. This is because Chris McCandless is an individual who denies any right to a clearer or easier path to direct in his life, but enters a greater darkness without any
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