Hunters in the Snow Q. 7

In Tobias Wolff's Hunters in the Snow, we are shown three dysfunctional "friends" who go on a hunting trip together. All of the men are jerks to each other, but Frank and Kenny are especially mean towards Tub. After Kenny shoots a dog, Tub thinks he will shoot him, so Tub ends up wounding Kenny in the stomach. The guys begin to act like sane people, but on the way to the hospital that breaks down continually. Rather than driving as fast as they can to the hospital, Frank and Tub take multiple stops. The two move farther and farther away from humanity, and more towards animalistic properties. The compassion goes from little to none for Kenny as he is left to bleed to death in the back of a pick up truck. While looking up the last line, I found out it had great significance. "They had taken a different turn a long way back" (p.201) does not refer to driving directions as it seems on the surface, but rather towards a mental turn the guys made. They decided to allow Kenny to freeze and bleed out in the truck. They turn away from their human emotions, blackening their souls  by allowing their so called friend to die.