In the short story “How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar,” the theme is it’s always good to help those less fortunate. This theme is illustrated all throughout the short story. At the beginning of “How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar,” the men were bored and had nowhere to go. So the old man offered up his house to hang out. “ ‘yes, Christmas , and tonight’s Christmas eve. Ya see, boys, I kinder thought -- that is, I sorter had an idee, jest passin’ like, you know -- that may be ye’d all like to come over to my house tonight and have a sort of tear round. But I suppose, now, you wouldn’t? Don’t feel like it, may be?’ he added with anxious sympathy, peering into the faces of his companions” (2). This goes along with the theme because even
