" "It wasn't up to McDonald's standards to come in 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." "
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McCandless didn't have the facilities to take a bath. He was living on the streets on the outskirts of town. He liked being one with nature and he didn't need to take a shower. People look down on others who do not bathe as often as they should. When the other employees tried to help him out, he wouldn't take anything. McCandless was his own person and could do everything on his own. Society's way to solve the problem was to just give him some soap and tell him to use it. This was against the morals that McCandless had made for himself. It made him mad when people thought he didn't have soap to shower and for them to offer him some was a major insult. McCandless had his own ways and was going to do whatever he wanted in order to reach his goal of being with nature and seeing the ultimate beauty and he didn't care what others thought. This is what made it hard for people to understand him.
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