Character Analysis
The rabbit hunter tries to act all macho, but the truth is…he's softer than soggy nachos.
Yes, we know, we can bust a mad rhyme. But that's beside the point.
The hunter is the first person to stumble across Mrs. Grimes' body. Although he acts cool and collected, he secretly believes that "she might have been murdered and someone might spring out from behind a tree and murder him" too (4.9). Suddenly, this tough guy looks more like a pussycat.
This emphasizes just how frightening death truly is. It's only natural that the narrator and his brother are terrified by the experience: they've never seen death so closely before. But here's an adult man who's been whipped into a Blair Witch Project-level of paranoia by the mere sight of a dead body. It turns out that death is terrifying no matter how much life experience you have.