The cluster of gaunt strands comprising the tuft each resembles a dying creature begging to be put out of its misery .
McClaren persists with them , refusing to acknowledge the hopelessness of the situation - and now it is too late to save him .
The cluster of gaunt strands comprising the tuft each resembles a dying creature begging to be put out of its misery , yet McClaren persists with them , refusing to acknowledge the hopelessness of the situation - and now it is too late to save him .