A Phoney in The Fifty Dollar Bill :: The Fifty Dollar Bill

A Phoney in The litre Dollar Bill In The Fifty Dollar Bill written by Donald Hall, the narrator of the story seems to be an near man, exactly is he really? I believe for the closely part he is very honestexcept for when he did non want to be drafted so he bribed his congressman. He had several reasons for wanting(p) to be exempt from the draft. He was always honest, until he realized he had something chief(prenominal) that could be lost. The very beginning of the story starts with the narrator public lecture to us (the readers) to the highest degree how honest he is. He tells about how he is well respected both in his profession and in the alliance where respect is not accorded easily (Hall 957). He is saying since he is a lawyer, respect is hard to earn. He tells us all the things he has never done I dupe never asked the judge who is my best garter to fix a ticket for the son of my liquor struggleer. I adjudge never promised a favor to a detective in pose to hide evi dence unfavorable to my client (957). He is making it a point for us to believe he is honest. When he talks about other lawyers, he says they live on intimate harm with imposture (957). This statement implies that he could not handle being dishonest, or that at least he does not live on intimate terms with dishonesty. However, the final statement of the first paragraph, I call myself an honest man, does not really sound like he means what he is saying. He says, I call myself an honest man, not I am an honest man. If the narrator was so worried about being honest, what reasons could he have had to try to bribe the congressman? He had a lot to deal with when the rumors of the draft came around. The narrator was a third-year law student. He but had one more year to complete before he got his degree. His wife was pregnant and about to have their first child. Those two things were very important to him, and he could not take the chance of losing them. Not only this, but he feared his own death. He had a repeated sequence in his minds eye in which he kept comprehend his own death. The dream not only took place while be was asleep, he also saw his death while he was awake.