“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'm not exactly sure how I feel about Christopher McCandless based on this quote. In my opinion, I think I can definitely see and kind of identify with Chris and what he was attempting to forge by going into the wild, however I do not think that it was so brash that it deserved the tons and tons of admiration that he recieved. I also think that Chris was being a little too cynical, and this blinded him in a way from the rest of the world that was attempting to embrace him.