In Ernest Hemingway short stories “Che Ti Dice La Patria?” and “The Killers” men are characterize as dishonest people. People who are dishonest cannot be trusted at all. Someone who is portrayed as a dishonest person will go behind your back and lie to you just to get out of any kind of situation or for their own pleasure. Three examples of the way men are dishonest is found in the short story “Che Ti Dice La Patria,” which is a story about two men’s ten-day trip through Italy. In one scene from the section “A Meal In Spezia” the two men go inside a restaurant where they encounter a waitress that likes one of them, but, he cannot speak her language, so his friend, the narrator, takes advantage of the situation and uses it for his own pleasure. After that the narrator continues to do this instead of finding a way out of the situation, so that they can be back on the road and finish their journey. Later on when they leave to continue …show more content…
In this scene, the waitress that took their order wondered if Guy had like her (Hemingway 294). Hemingway writes “He adores you, I said. But he doesn’t speak Italian. ‘Ich spreche Deutsch,’ she said, and stroked Guy’s hair . . . ‘Tell her we have to go,’ said Guy . . . My friend is a misogynist, I said, an old German misogynist. ‘Tell him I love him’” (294). Since Guy cannot speak the waitress’s native language, the narrator takes advantage of it. He does this by telling the waitress things that Guy did not tell him to say and making the girl believe that Guy actually likes her. This is what makes the waitress flirt with Guy and it makes him uncomfortable. When Guy wishes to leave the narrator keeps informing the waitress about Guy, by telling her that he is an old German misogynist. He has fun with this for a while, because both Guy and the waitress think that he is telling the truth. This shows how dishonest men are towards their friends and