This Boy's Life Men and Masculinity Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #10

"There was a dash of swagger to his pose, something of the stage cavalier, but his smile was friendly and hopeful." (29.42)

There's a lot of passages like this one in the book: Jack's putting on a show, but that show entails the kind of guy he'd like to be. In this case, someone friendly and approachable, but very confident and a little brazen. Could that, finally, be the kind of man Jack wants to be?