Crassus Snow Character Analysis

Crassus Snow is Coriolanus’s deceased father. Before the war, he was a munitions magnate whose business was based in District 13. He lost everything in the war, when nuclear bombs flattened 13 and destroyed the factories. Crassus joined the military and became a great commander, but he died when a rebel sniper shot him. Coriolanus was a young child at the time. All Coriolanus has left of his father is his compass, and he seldom thinks fondly of his Crassus—his father always made him feel afraid and inadequate. In the leadup to the Hunger Games, Coriolanus starts to get snippets of information about his father: apparently, he was best friends with Casca Highbottom, the current Dean at the Academy. Coriolanus can’t figure out how Dean Highbottom could’ve been his father’s best friend, yet hate Coriolanus so openly. Only after Coriolanus returns from District 12 does he learn the truth: Crassus was the one to write down Highbottom’s drunken ramblings and turn them into a proposal to be presented to their professor, Dr. Gaul. That proposal was for the Hunger Games. Dean Highbottom sees Crassus as morally corrupt, as he cared about his grade far more than he cared about the cruelty and carnage the Hunger Games would bring. Coriolanus, however, isn’t bothered by this revelation—by this point, he has chosen to follow in his father’s footsteps and prioritize his grades and his success over anything else.