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Teachers & SchoolsFate and Free Will
If there is ever a place where destiny meets will, it's on the baseball field. Or basketball court. Or in the mud-wrestling pit. So many different factors can influence the outcome of a sports contest. In The Natural, the baseball player protagonist Roy Hobbs is a gifted player, disciplined, driven, and naturally talented. It seems like fate is just working against him. However, we do get to see, from the omniscient narrator's point of view, how some of his choices make him an active participant in his ultimate tragic destiny.
In The Natural, Roy Hobbs has no control over his destiny. Like a tragic hero he's fated to fail.
Even though Roy believes that fate is working against him, The Natural actually shows that it's his own dumb fault that his life ends up the way it does.