"I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one." Evaluate this quote from Chris McCandless in Into the Wild.

This idea expressed by McCandless early on in Krakauer's
account gives us a key insight into his personality and worldview.  His is not an
original idea, in fact we saw many people come to the same conclusion during the late
1950s and 60s, when young people began to explore alternative styles of living, even to
the point of establishing communes because they had become disillusioned with what
society and their parents expected of them.

McCandless is
cut from the same cloth, and has the added motivation of his parents perceived
betrayal.  Chris is very much his own man, and a key event in his final evolution as a
person is his renunciation of worldly things, including the promising career and
privileged life that probably awaited him.  Adventure and a new life beckons to most of
us at one point or another, but few of us take the definitive steps McCandless did, and
I think that is a key attraction for us to his story.