Friday's honesty is apparent, not only to the reader, but also to Crusoe. Crusoe's own description of Friday is evidence of this, "I had a singular satisfaction in the fellow himself: his simple, unfeigned honesty appeared to me more and more every day"(148). Crusoe specifies Friday's honesty as "simple" and "unfeigned". It seems Crusoe would have expected a "savage" to be misleading, also a sign of his preconceptions. Again, when Crusoe is jealous of Friday at his expression of joy at the thought of his own country, Crusoe "found everything he said was so honest and so innocent, that I could find nothing to nourish my suspicion"(152). Crusoe's jealousy stems

from his "civilized" thinking, and Friday's pure expression of truth comes from his "primitive" ways. Yet, when Friday surprises Crusoe with a simple and innocent question Crusoe "pretended not to hear him"(150). Crusoe is surprised and attempts to deceive Friday to forget the question. It seems Crusoe's natural reaction in that situation is to lie. Friday has an honesty that Crusoe cannot compete with. In everything that Friday says and does, he relates only the truth because Friday does not know differently. Furthermore, part of this honesty comes from Friday's deep loyalty to Crusoe.

Crusoe spent time in "civilization" and thinks about things in an experienced, and rather pessimistic way. Friday, on the other hand, is innocent of society and hasn't been taught anyway to think. Crusoe believes that man has a tendency to do evil, "the devil...cause us to run upon our destruction by our own choice"(150). He thinks anyone, especially a "savage" would be tempted by the devil. Yet when he tries to explain to Friday about the devil, Crusoe exposes Friday's pure and natural innocence, "but there appeared nothing of this kind in the notion of an evil spirit, of his origin, his being, his nature, and above all, of his inclination to do evil, and to draw us in to do s

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