" McCandless didn't conform particularly well to the bush-casualty stereotype. Although he was rash, untutored in the ways of the backcountry, and incautious to the point of foolhardiness, he wasn't incompetent-he wouldn't have lasted 113 days if he were and he wasn't a nutcase, he wasn't a sociopath, he wasn't an outcast. McCandless was something else-although precisely what is hard to say. A pilgrim, perhaps."
-Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, page 84
Krakauer feels towards McCandless as someone that is very hard to describe. Because McCandless was able to servive 113 days in the wilderness, and even before that, he was able to survive in all the trips that he took to nature, and because he was able to make friends with most of the people, make connections with them, be someone that can listen,and talk to for them, Krakauer believes that McCandless is not crazy, mentally ill, or a nutcase. However, he says that McCandless is someone who cannot really be described in words but may be a pilgrim, because McCandless has such an unusual characteristic, definitely not a normal one.
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