the natural

The Natural, written by Bernard Malamud starts out with Roy, an aspiring baseball player on a train with his scout, Sam. Roy is still in his younger years, while Sam is an old scout who has slowed down over the years. On the train Sam notices that a well-known sportswriter, Max Mercy, is aboard, along with Walter Whambold, a superstar ball player, so he introduces Roy to them. Walter the “Whammer” Whambold is a cocky …

…when the team is receiving a prayer and Roy storms out of the room halfway through it. He said he wasn’t going to be hypnotized by some priest, and Pop’s, the head coach yelled at him and told he that if he keeps walking, he’ll never step foot on the field again. The coach, in a postmodern society is trying to unify the team instead of having everybody doing their own thing.