Character Analysis: Response To Into The Woods

Response to “Into the Woods” Into the Woods by Cheryl Strayed is a reflective short story that portrays her strengths, doubts, fear, and problematic issues. While walking down this journey she has overcome many difficulties that almost affected her journey. Cheryl continued her journey on even with the baggage she carried. Cheryl’s main problem was having doubts in whether she was actually prepared to continue her journey in Pacific Crest Trail. In the passage she kept reminding herself that she didn’t properly think out this journey. In this passage she states, “It occurred to me just then that I’d never actually walked into the wilderness with a backpack on and spent the night. Not even once. I’ve never gone backpacking! I though with

Cheryl faced many obstacles before backpacking through the Pacific Crest Trail, she had to deal with loss of people who she loved dearly. While on this journey the baggage Cheryl was carrying around was not physical but emotional. At the end of this short story Cheryl says, “How there was no escape or denial. No numbing anything down with a martini or covering it up with a roll in hay.” What Cheryl portrays here is emotion, she is trying to explain to us that going on this journey she couldn’t escape the baggage she was carrying around. She couldn’t cover it up by smoking weed which she referred to us “a roll in hay.” Nor could she escape with a martini in her hand there was no escape. Cheryl Strayed central point in this short story that you can’t escape the problems that you have come towards you, nor can you give up. She states, “The thing about hiking the Pacific

Crest Trail, the thing that was so profound to me that summer – and yet also, like most things, so very simple – was how few choices I had and how often I had to do the thing I least wanted to do.” Cheryl is communicating with her readers and is trying to portray that although at