MBTI Type: ESTP
Hub was a larger-than-life hero in his younger years, and is having trouble settling down as an adult. Why sit around for hours trying to get fish to grab a hook when you can just shoot the fish? Hub hates being retired. He loathes sitting on the porch day after day, waiting for things to happen. He spent his entire youth traveling the world, fighting in wars, rescuing fair maidens, making enemies of sheiks, and came home a wealthy man. Hub enjoys stretching his body to its physical limitations—he fights five teenagers at once, about twenty minutes after being hospitalized for collapsing after loading hundred pound sacks of lion food into the truck. His final glorious act is joyriding in an airplane he built himself—and getting a ticket for speeding. There’s no fooling Hub—he knows BS when he smells it. He has absolutely no interest in intellectual activities. Hub is blunt, sarcastic, sometimes rude, but always logical. His detachment means he’s not one for sentiment. When boys attack him in a bar, rather than get upset, he shows them how to better hold their knives so they can fight better. Later, he gives them the “things everyone ought to know about being a man” speech. His temper sometimes gets the better of him. He also has a likable demeanor and doesn’t much like “a fuss.” His joy over Walter’s presence upsetting their relatives, whom he cannot stand, entices him to suggest Walter ought to stay on permanently. He is more affected by Walter’s emotional appeals than he lets on and keeps his promise about sticking around long enough to give Walter “the speech.”
Enneagram: 8w9
Hub is angry about everything, and very intimidating to Walter at first. He hates to think of himself as weak and intends to kill himself before he goes “batty.” When the others tell him to take it easy, he insists on slugging around fifty-pound sacks of lion chow and throwing them in the back of the truck, leading to his own mild heart attack. When he comes to in the hospital, he cusses them out for dragging him there, and throws his bedpan and everything else he can reach at the nurses. After Walter is hurt by his future stepfather, Hub says the man is lucky the lion found him first, because he would have done a lot worse. He frets to his brother about allowing Walter’s mother to drive away with him and asks if they can “buy the boy… how much money we got left?” He often loses his temper, throws around tools, cusses at everyone, and enjoys shooting at drive-by salesmen rather than negotiating with them. The only thing Hub respects is for others to stand up to him; he agrees with Walter that he will wait around and give him the “how to be a man speech.” One of his epic moments includes beating up a teenager and telling him why he’s pathetic, which includes his own war record and how he “has loved only one woman” in his lifetime. He often uses aggression to reinforce his desire to be “left the hell alone!”
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