There are several contradictions in Doc's life. Discuss this and other contradictions in his life. Though Annabel says she wants Stu to be happy she continually returns and throws his life into chaos. Several other women are important to Doc. After Doc's meeting with Leonard Blackfox, when he learns about the events of the night of the murder, there's one thing that is still unclear to Doc.
Dreams are an important device in the novel, starting right with the title.
Discuss how dreams are used here. At the end of the novel, Annabel leaves. However, even now Doc imagines her calling or returning some day. White is clearly in control of the many characters here, and he skillfully evokes the class tensions, racism and anti-Yankee sentiment of this region. A Dream of Wolves, is a marvelous evocation of place and character, right down to the flinty-eyed stare of the backwoods folk of North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains.