Binx Bolling vs. Nick Adams

Nick Adams is very distant from reality and very naive in his daily life. Binx Bolling is isolated from his life and unable to reconnect with his home life after his return from the Korean War. Both try and use outside sources to make sense of their isolation from society. Binx Bolling uses the movies or movie theater as a place of escape, while Nick uses nature. Binx commonly enters into superficial relationships with his secretaries or visits the movies in order to distract himself from his issues re-inserting himself into society. Nick chooses a less social route by taking long isolated fishing trips. The similarity between both is that they seem to both be searching for themselves. Nick is seeking maturity and the feeling that comes with adulthood while Binx is simply trying to reinsert himself into society.