McCandless has chosen to call himself Alex, short for "Alexander Supertramp." This act represents complete abundance of his family name, his parents who named him and therefore their values.
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McCandless has chosen to call himself Alex, short for "Alexander Supertramp." This act represents complete abundance of his family name, his parents who named him and therefore their values.
However, more than that, this act places Christopher among many other fictional characters in American literature who changed their names as part of the process of reinventing themselves. For example; G. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. James Gatz changed his name into The Great Gatsby, glamorous millionaire.