Ernest Hemingway's The Moustache

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The theme developed throughout the story, “The Moustache”, is that sometimes it is better to hide the truth from people in hard times. The first time this is portrayed is when Mike tells his mother, “ “I’m thinking about shaving it off.” Even though I wasn’t” (2). He states this so his mother doesn’t get upset he is not listening to her. He is keeping her in hope that someday he really will shave his moustache off. When in reality he wasn’t planning on it. The second time the theme is portrayed is when Mike goes to see his grandmother and she believes he is Mike, her husband and starts asking him for forgiveness. “”Say, I forgive you, Meg.” I said it. My voice sounded funny, as if I were talking in a huge tunnel. “I forgive you, Meg”” (6).

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