I believe that Chris McCandless is just lost in this world. He's trying to do everything for himself without every one's help and he discovers that he's lonely and wants to break back through to the people that care about him. If he did try to come out of the woods and wasn't there just to die, why wouldn't he get the proper gear or at least get to know the area more? That part was very foolish. Plus, he was from the city, so he didn't know the first thing about the wilderness. His stupidity is what killed the man.
Chris was definitely an idealist. He wanted to give to others and never really cared about himself. In some ways that could be a good thing, in other ways that's kind of how Chris died. He didn't care enough to learn to hunt, but he cared too much to actually kill an animal worth killing. For example, he killed a caribou and the meat decomposed before he could get it all eaten because McCandless tried to savor the meat of such a beautiful creature. He hunted small animals that he could eat in one sitting. He knew he was becoming weak, so why not kill a moose? This didn't make much sense to me.
Throughout the novel, my idea of Chris probably won't change. However, I might have a better understanding of why he chooses to live his life the way that he does. Chris is definitely on top of the Transcendentalist thinking. If his thinking was connected to the world, how did Chris not know to go south to find a break in the river, or the fact that it might be flooded? In the end if Chris wasn't a Transcendental thinker, he would have never survived 113 days not knowing anything about the wilderness. In the end, I believe it was extremely foolish for Chris to just give up everything he had, his education, law school money, and his family, in return for nothing, death.
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