Is it not an everyday struggle an individual faces, on how to contrast or differentiate between what is good and what is evil? There are many situations where it is crystal clear or upfront on what is right, yet at least once in a lifetime an individual must have questioned himself on what could be the right thing to do. “Just Lather, That’s all” follows the similar outline where the main character, the barber is too stuck between an everyday struggle where he is to choose between good or evil, and mortality versus iniquity. In the story, the main character, the barber goes through an internal conflict on coming up with the decision that may change or affect many things that are to come. In “Just lather, that’s all”, the barber makes a right decision as to not kill Captain Torres because of his pride in his work, not a murderer and face the outcome/ consequences.
To start, the barber shows that he is a responsible barber in the town of Columbia by the way he takes pride in his work. To begin, after much discussion with himself the barber makes it very clear that he is a responsible barber, who takes pride in his work, as he takes the responsibility of treating the Captain just as any other customer and making sure the fact no single pore emitted a drop of…show more content… It is because he had respected his work, will not be called murderer and prevented the consequences of the decision from occurring. To conclude, many would argue the fact that the barber had betrayed the rebels by sparing the life of his enemy, but in his eye he neither wanted to be hero or a murderer, which would leave a one questioning of would any other person have made the same decision and followed their morals or would have let anger take over their mind and committed the sin of killing the
