He doesn't expend himself to get a great job or a committed relationship, instead he takes easy work, at the food co-op and drifts from person to person, with Lisa serving as a frequent stop along the way. So, Nate runs away and winds up in Seattle, where he apparently lives a life devoted to his own pleasure. He learns more about his father in the first few episodes of season one, most notably 'The Room,' than he did in all his childhood. The person who most like was his father, however Nathaniel always maintained a distance from his family, so Nate was never able to get close to him. He didn't want to live in that atmosphere, bound by the restrictive rules governing behavior in the Fisher family. Living in a funeral home, this caused a problem, and is likely one of the major reasons that he left home. As a child, he seemed to have a deep fear of death, whether it be his dead dog, or the bodies his father was working on, Nate had an understandable fear of the dead. However, the series gives us glimpses of what Nate's life was like before this. The first time we see Nate is on a plane going home for Christmas, and in that scene, he meets the person who will dominate his life for the next five years, Brenda. So, rather than continuing this elliptical analysis, I shall go straight to the source and discuss the show's central character, its tragic hero, Nate Fisher. Maggie, while she does have some intriuging characteristics, is most interesting in the context of her relationship to Nate and what she tells us about him. In my last post, I covered one of the series' more insignificant characters.
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