Lather and nothing else
Have you ever contemplated killing someone? In the story “lather and nothing else” the two main characters both are thinking about killing one another. Since the barber had such an inability to take a life, he exhibited great self-control. It also showed how the barber thought by showing how he had a very logical way of thinking. The barber shows self-control multiple times in the story from beginning to end. The barber was in charge of giving Captain Torres a clean shave when doing this it says in the story about how tempted he was to kill the Captain, in the story when Torres is talking about the firing party happening at the school the barber thinks to himself “I have never had him so close before.” Which shows that he could have taken the straight razor at anytime an with one swift motion he could of sliced his carotid artery. Now by him having self-control helped him to take the captains life which was very smart on his part. The barber was a very logical thinker as this is expressed multiple times in the story. The major time it is expressed is when he is shaving the captains neck and he starts to think about how bad it would be if he cut the captains carotid artery it says that “The blood would go flowing along the floor, warm, indelible, not to be staunched, until it reached the street like a small scarlet river.” This just goes to prove how much the barber was thinking about it, he actually was imagining the outcome of him slitting his neck. The barber was very nervous as it is shown multiple times in the story. There are times when it says that his hands were starting to shake or he was breaking a sweat. Torres on the other hand I felt was also nervous but he held his composure very well, I knew he was nervous because he said at the end that he thought the barber was going to kill him which shows that he knew his life was on the line the entire time. In the end there is a few thing that they have in common, but they are very different at the