The Book’s Cover
Every day people are judged on his or her first appearances, and usually there are wrongly judged. The theme of the story “ The Yellow Sweater” suggests that same idea: one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. The one doing the judging in this story is “Tom”: he wrongly judges the girl, himself and the yellow sweater. Let’s examine the final outcomes of these superficial judgments.Most often one has a tendency to wrongly judge others. In this case, the man judges the girl, Mary, as trying to trick him so she can get a ride. The author writes: He knew her type all right. (…) while all the time she was secretly laughing at him for being the sucker who picked her up, bought her a lunch, and drove her into town. She couldn’t fool him; he’d met her type before. (page 109) He thinks that she is playing an innocent role to fool him but that she isn’t as innocent as she let on. All the while, the one who is trying to trick someone is definitely not Mary but the man “Tom”. He knows, the whole time, that his inner thoughts are wrong. While the girl trusts him more and more, and opening up to him, he continues to hide his true identity. He does so by not stating his real name, by vaguely speaking about his work and by hiding the initia
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Approximate Word count = 959
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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