White Fang escapes and goes back to Grey Beaver, but Grey Beaver returns him to Beauty Smith, and White Fang is beaten. Then Grey Beaver, entirely broke, sells White Fang to Beauty Smith. So Beauty brings Grey Beaver whiskey and gives it to him until all of his money is drunk away. When White Fang and Grey Beaver arrive in Fort Yukon, they encounter Beauty Smith. Beauty Smith wants to buy White Fang, but Grey Beaver refuses to sell. When Beauty Smith is White Fang's master, this hatred turns itself in on White Fang his hatred for Beauty Smith comes out in his fighting of their dogs. Grey Beaver is in the middle, ruling White Fang with mutual respect neutrally.

However, he uses hate to further White Fang's development. He bought White Fang because he saw the hatred and fierceness that was already instilled in the wolfdog. He is an excellent comparison with Grey Beaver and with Weedon Scott. He is an example of the equation of ugliness with spiritual meanness that is often present in stories, especially simple tales like White Fang. His hair is sparse and irregular of growth, muddy-dirty and yellow-dirty, rising on his head and sprouting out of his face in unexpected tuffs and bunches, in appearance like clumped and wind-blown grain.īeauty Smith is a cruel, horrible man. His teeth are large and yellow, while his two eye-teeth showed under his lean lips like fangs. His appearance is possibly due to the weariness of his slender neck, unable to support properly. He has an enormous prognathous jaw that rests on his shoulder. His large eyes are muddy and yellow and his face is prodigious. His head slants down to his neck uncompromisingly to meet a low and remarkably wide forehead. His vile appearance could be considered a hint to his nature: a hideous, distorted thing, hardly resembling a human in everything but basic shape. He is a hideous dogfighter who buys White Fang to fight dogs, because he was bullied and forced to grow up on the outskirts of society because of his hideousness. ~ Weedon Scott buying White Fang from Beauty Smith.īeauty Smith is the main antagonist of Jack London's White Fang.

Understand?) (Beauty Smith grunts) (Weedon Scott: Understand?) Yes.

I'll have the law on you! (Weedon Scott: If you open your mouth when you get back to Dawson, I'll have you run out of town. You're a beast.) Wait till I get back to Dawson. (Weedon Scott: Correct, a man's got his rights. Are you going to take the money, or do I have to hit you again!) Alright! But I take the money under protest. (Weedon Scott: You've forfeited your rights to own that dog. (Weedon Scott: Oh yes you are, because I'm buying. Beast? I'm going to take your dog from you, and I'm going to give you 150 for him.) I ain't a-sellin'.

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