- All's Well That Ends Well
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Rationalizing his decision to steal the melon, the narrator makes himself believe he’s acting morally by trying to steal the melon, since he falsely assumes that Mr. Wills deserves this cruelty. However, the details of the passage suggest that he knows his decision to steal the melon is not fully moral and is rooted to some extent in self-deception.
Using the passive voice to describe that the idea of stealing the melon “surged up out of [him],” the narrator evades responsibility—he implies that he himself did not come up with this idea, but instead it just arrived in his mind…