What is The Right Stuff? :: The Right Stuff

The Right Stuff - What is the Stuff? As might be expected from the title, The Right Stuff is centered on the concept of having the right on-hand(a) stuff. Author Tom Wolfe procedures several recurring techniques and comparisons to eviscerate this composition and its relationship to the men who took part in the Mercury program. An possibleness chapter of the book is devoted to the "right stuff" in order to rationalize the concept to the reader. In this chapter, Wolfe makes a clear mark between the right stuff and simple bravery. He tells the reader that a possessor of the right stuff can not yet risk his life. He "should shed the ability to go up in a hurtling piece of machinery and come in his hide on the line and then have the moxie, the reflexes, the experience, the coolness, to pull it tail end in the last yawning moment" (19). One critic interprets the distinction as world "between the actual experience of the right stuff- of being a fighter pilot and experiencing, for example, night landings on an aircraft carrier- and any foregoing effort to describe that experience in language" (Marowski and Matuz 419). In the comparable chapter, the reader is also introduced to an element which recurs throughout the rest of the book. The author compares a career in flying to the climbing of a ziggurat, an extraordinarily senior high and steep gain. In an especially vivid passage he writes "the idea was to prove at every foot of the way up that pyramid that you were one of the elected and anointed ones who had the right stuff and could move high and higher and even-ultimately...be able to join the very Brotherhood of the Right Stuff" (19 ). done this pyramid the world is divided into those who had the stuff and those were just left behind. other characteristic of the right stuff is the pilots relationship with one another. These pilots seem to unendingly want to associate only with one another. Wolfe shows the reader the pilots belief that only other pilots can understand their daily life and death struggles. In their discussions, though, it is shown that the pilots never like to use words like "danger," "bravery," and "fear." Instead they use a special code or explain by example.