Max Mercy Character Analysis in The Natural

Max Mercy is a journalist who follows the Knights and is intent on discovering Hobbs’s past. As a younger journalist, he covered the Whammer and encountered Hobbs on the train to Chicago, but he seems not to remember this meeting until later on in the novel; moreover, Hobbs has kept his history—and his encounter with Harriet Bird—a secret from the public. Max exposes Hobbs’s insecurities about his past by confronting him throughout the novel, forcing Hobbs to remember both the trauma of his wounding and his deep desire to transcend his destitute background at any cost.

Max Mercy Quotes in The Natural

The The Natural quotes below are all either spoken by Max Mercy or refer to Max Mercy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

Ambition, Failure, and the American Dream Theme Icon

).

He felt he had been running for ages, then this blurred black forest slid past him, and as he slowed down, each black tree followed a white, and then all the trees were lit in somber light till the moon burst forth through the leaves and the woods glowed. Out of it appeared this boy and his dog, and Roy in his heart whispered him a confidential message: watch out when you cross the road, kid.

Related Characters: Roy Hobbs, Memo Paris, Harriet Bird / The Woman, Max Mercy

Related Symbols: The Boy and His Dog

Page Number and Citation: 122

Explanation and Analysis:

Max Mercy Quotes in The Natural

The The Natural quotes below are all either spoken by Max Mercy or refer to Max Mercy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

).

He felt he had been running for ages, then this blurred black forest slid past him, and as he slowed down, each black tree followed a white, and then all the trees were lit in somber light till the moon burst forth through the leaves and the woods glowed. Out of it appeared this boy and his dog, and Roy in his heart whispered him a confidential message: watch out when you cross the road, kid.

Related Characters: Roy Hobbs, Memo Paris, Harriet Bird / The Woman, Max Mercy

Related Symbols: The Boy and His Dog

Page Number and Citation: 122

Explanation and Analysis:

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