Dec 30, 2009

The Deerslayer | Characters

The characters in The Deerslayer are conveniently grouped by their moral attitude. There are Tom and Hurry, settlers and frontiersmen who clearly display the more undesirable characteristics of white civilization: greed and callousness. They have no motivation except money, and see the Indians as savages to be exploited in any way possible. There is little concern for right and wrong. Tom is even willing to sacrifice the safety of the two young women by embarking on his scalping expedition. Their opponents are the Mingos, Canadian Indian tribes whose partisanship with the French...