Throughout the book I kept asking myself if Billy was ever going to find himself. I feel that the book was all about a search…the search for his identity. Maybe that’s why in the beginning he wanted to take the wolf back to where it belonged. He had a connection with the wolf and by returning the wolf he’d feel satisfacation and possibly completion.
Boyd is able to find himself and establish a rep or identity for himself…you can say he was finally happy since he also found love. Meanwhile, Billy is in search of something or someone. He is determined to find Boyd and throughout the quest he begins to realize that he is becoming a man. We begin to see that there’s an aggresiveness in Billy that wasn’t seen before. He’s not as quiet…he begins to speak up. The whole quest is important and the people that he runs into. All the details…the short stories..they begin to transform Billy.
