Hunters in the Snow

I didn't very much like Tobias Wolff's Hunters in the Snow.  The characters all seem like horrible people, and then the plot and ending of the story are extremely bizarre.  Kenny enjoys teasing almost to the point of cruelty, resulting eventually in his getting shot.  Frank is married and has children, but is having an affair with a fifteen year old.  And then there is Tub, who searches for pity for his being overweight, but secretly is a glutton.  None of these characters appeal to me whatsoever.  And then there is the plot of this story, which along with the characters is also frustrating.  The story begins with chaos, in Kenny almost running over Tub with the truck, and also ends in chaos.  Kenny gets shot, Tub admits to his gluttony, Frank admits to his affair, and the reader is finally left with the question of whether Kenny lives or dies, thanks to Frank and Tubs idiocy of losing the list of the directions. The end really angered me because I figured that after all the odd curve balls that the author threw into the plot, like Kenny getting shot or Frank having and affair or Tub being a glutton, that the characters had finally grown and realized a little out about each other. I thought that some progress had been made and that these characters might be able to grow closer in the bonds of their friendship after realizing each others' weaknesses and problems. However, the story ends with, "'I'm going to the hospital,' Kenny said.  But he was wrong.  They had taken a different turn a long way back". The characters won't be able to grow in their friendship because it is most likely that Kenny will die because of an erroneous mistake on Tub's part.