Wes Hayden is essentially a weak man. Is this how you view him?
In the novel Montana 1948 we learn of a character named Wes. Throughout the story we are given detailed information about Wes’ personality. Wes is neither a strong nor weak man. As many people, he has certain aspects of his character that portray weakness, and other aspects that portray strength. There are not many people if any that could be described as either strong in every aspect, or weak in every aspect. After all each individual is different and it is impossible to label a person as just typically weak or typically strong.
Modesty to the extreme in which Wes displayed throughout the novel can be a sign of weakness; it is a general perception that a person in charge of maintaining the law would be a very confident person with a very high sense of right and wrong. This perception contradicts the way Wes acted in the novel. Wes was self-effacing and never drew any attention to himself. Wes had a very high status in his community due to his profession and his family but he never even wore his badge when on duty nor did he carry his gun. This is just one of Wes’ characteristics that may portray him to be a weak man.