White Fang | Characters
As in The Call of the Wild (1903), most of White Fang is told from the point of view of the canine protagonist. The reader is clearly meant to sympathize and identify with White Fang's struggle to survive and his difficult education to the ways of civilization. But unlike Buck, the protagonist of The Call of the Wild, who experiences apotheosis as the mythic Ghost Dog of the North, White Fang becomes "The Blessed Wolf," a heroic defender of his master's life and property. His integration and domestication are portrayed in the final scene of the novel as he lies in the sun playing with...
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