" It wasn't up to McDonald's standards to come smelling the way he did. So finally they delegated me to tell him that he needed to take a bath more often. Ever since I told him, there was a clash between us. And then the other employees-they were just trying to be nice-they started asking him if he needed some soap or anything. That made him mad-you could tell. but he never showed it outright. About three weeks later, he just walked out the door and quit."
-Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, page 41
Here is a perfect example of how the small portion of society was bothered by McCandless. That small portion is his co-workers and boss. McCandless was too into nature, and the denial of accepting anything that was not nature-like. As said in earlier quotes, he thought that he has a right to do anything the way he wanted to do, especially the ways of his living. That thought of McCandless bothered everyone that he worked with. The people that he worked with, knew that McCandless was a great worker, who always got his work done. Since they all knew that McCandless cannot be forced to stop being the way he is, so some of them tried to nicely give him advice on how he should be, at least at work. Most of the workers treated him like he was a child who cannot control himself, because they knew that if they did not treat him like that, that would just cause trouble.
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