Walk Kowalski Analysis

Walk Kowalski is racist, stubborn, and unhappy. He shows racism by calling the Hmong people offensive names such as dragon lady, yum-yum, or toad. Walk doesn’t even like his new doctor because she is not American, he can barely enter the room when he sees her. He gives all the Hmong people dirty looks and stereotypes them to the ones he killed in Korea. When Father Janovich keeps trying to get Walt to come to confession, he keeps turning him down because he is very stubborn. He likes to do things his way and does not accept any help from others. At the wake for his wife they needed more chairs and Walt turns his son to help him because he said, “he wants it done today not next week.” There is probably a lot of reasons why Walt may be unhappy,