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'Pete: Loyal to a Fault â€Å"The generous Brother,” by Tobias Wolff is the story of two brothers that from all accounts couldn’t be to a greater extent different. Pete, the elder brother, is the epitome of the Ameri basis Dream. He has worked hard and be lose on with an entrepreneur, has a married woman and kids, and withal brags ab extinct an ocean view from his home. Donald is completely opposite. He is for the most part unemployed, and although he is a spiritual person, he has been unable to get the castigate fit for his spirituality and bounced from religion to religion. The Rich Brother,” begins at the end of Donald’s most recent seem for spirituality when he must call his brother, Pete, cunning that Pete arouse non deny his brother’s need for process yet over again, and asks to be interrupted up from the communal maturate where he had been living. Throughout the story the lecturer sees legion(predicate) examples of Pete’s sense of responsibility toward his brother, his love and his lettering for family; however, Pete’s dominant characteristic is that he is allegiant to a fault, making him an enabler of his brother’s adolescent bearings at the same time allowing himself to be sop upn value of.The first evidence the referee has of Pete’s commitment to his family and Donald occurs within the first some paragraphs when the reader finds out that after Donald fails to find his way living in an Ashram as a Hindu, Pete compensable his extensive medical bills from an undiagnosed case of hepatitis. As adults in the â€Å"real world,” we are expect to take responsibility for our own actions by both training from a less than ideal aliveness set about and profitsing choke off a debt, whether through funds or with a change in approaching behavior.Donald doesn’t see it that way though, and appears to have no sense of the value of coin and how tough it was for Pe te to collect it. He also lacks the physical capability to pay his brother underpin because beforehand Pete is plain washed-up paying off Donald’s bills he has strand Christianity and joined a pentecostal community and begun to tell his new-made truth in tongues. Donald knows that Pete will again bail him out the next time as he had done before.It is just a patch further into the story that we see Pete allow his inscription to open himself up again to be interpreted advantage of when Donald demonstrates his lack of life skills, affecting the tonus of life for others on the farm. This results in his being asked to tolerate the farm. Rather than work social functions out for himself, Donald calls Pete, knowing he can count on his brother for economic aid to out of Paso Robles. It is no surprise that Pete’s agile response is to state that his brother will tot up live with his married woman and family while Donald gets on his feet.Additionally, Pete ends up driving a number of hours from Santa Cruz to physically tweak his brother up because past experiences in lend money to Donald and that of the Ashram in Berkeley, have taught Pete that simply big(p) Donald money is a no win situation. Donald’s non-existent life skills combined with Pete’s inability to pretend boundaries with his brother by saying, â€Å"no” is just a nonher(prenominal) occurrence of Pete believing he is att finishing even though, it may not be the right thing to do for Donald in the long term.Again and again Pete’s unrelenting stanchty removes some(prenominal) need for Donald to richly act like an adult. Upon arriving at the gas station, Donald flat requests money for food he has purchased, food he has consumed knowing he is unable to pay for it. Without a second thought Pete opens his wallet and produces $100, far more money than is actually owed. When Donald tries to give some of it jeopardize to his brother, Pete says, †Å"I can’t keep way of all these nickels and dimes. sightly pay me rearward when your commit comes in.Go on †take it! ” (615). These are perhaps spoken language parents might use with their college age child to mark off their child has enough to get them through a tough time, maybe a week during domesticate exams or something. A parent knows that the money is not going to be paid back, just as Pete knows Donald will never pay the money back to him. This situation reinforces the idea that Pete enables Donald to take advantage of him. Just as history reverberates itself, so does the cycle that is Pete and Donald.Donald erstwhile again takes advantage of his brother’s loyalty when on the drive home from the farm the brothers pick up Webster, a hitchhiker and conman. Webster spins a tale similarly good to be true solely Donald can’t see anything other than dollar signs when Webster offers him a share in his gold mine in Peru. Pete, as most adults would have, can see the short-change through Webster’s tale immediately and tries to help Donald see the truth by offering up multiple snarky comments and direct questions for Webster to answer. It’s just not enough though as Donald gives away Pete’s $100 to Webster in good faith for a share in the mine.This is a much larger issue than the fact that Donald just gave away Pete’s money and feels justified and blameless. The other issue is Pete’s †past experience should have taught Pete that Donald is incapable of apprehension the value of other people’s money or material items, which is part of the reason he was asked to leave the farm. Throughout â€Å"The Rich Brother” at that place are so many examples of Pete being loyal to a fault, but none are as utter as when Pete and Donald argue over the money Donald has given away.The brothers fight until they can’t come to any option other than that Donald needs to get out o f the car immediately at darkness in the middle of no where, effectively ending their co-dependent sibling relationship. By this point in life Pete should have realized that leaving Donald figure things out for himself may be the better alternative, but he just can’t. He is too loyal. Pete can’t even bear the idea of telling his wife that he left his brother along the side of the road with no where to work on.He can’t even kid himself †Pete knows that he is going to turn around and once again pick up the pieces of Donald’s mess, which will enable the cycle to repeat endlessly. All of these events lead one to wonder if Pete is a man driven by guilt. Is there any other reason that Pete, a reasonably winning man would allow himself to be taken advantage of and manipulated so often by Donald? The reader sees this utilisation when Donald questions Pete about why he has a new Mercedes, and why he chooses to skydive, all very expensive things, leaving P ete guiltily defending his choices to enjoy his success.Pete may also suffer from guilt for mistreating Donald after he underwent some sort of surgery as a child, a story that Donald adamantly recounts to Pete even though many years have passed and Pete isn’t even sure the events ever happened. Additionally, Pete avoids incurring any supererogatory guilt on behalf of Donald by taking oversee of all of his needs as their mother did before she passed; a similar thought process for Pete as he doesn’t want to imagine the attaint he will feel when he tells his wife why Donald is not with him.By the end of the story the reader can confidently assume that not besides will Pete pick up Donald’s pieces but that he will once again ascribe them back together for Donald, even though the dress hat thing Pete could do for Donald would be to step back and allow Donald to take adult responsibility and find a way to put his own pieces back together, but, because absolute l oyalty it is part of Pete’s temperament it is also his biggest fault when dealing with his brother.\r\n'