It depnds on your motivation. If it's for personal gain, that's called manipulation, and is extremely deceptive and unfair. But if your simply trying to appeal to someones emtions to get them to benefit a good cause, like showing them one of those videos of someone in the military coming home in order to persuade them to donate to a cause that helps veterans, I wouldn't really call that unfair or deceptive since they know exactly what you're trying to do. So it's deceptive and unfair when they don't know what you're tring to achieve and that you're trying to achieve anything.
`A cultural conflict. Will Allow both sides of the culture, see from the other side's Perspective. This will help both Sides of the culture to either grow. Or regress by declining.
Answer: It explains why Bob does not recognize his friend Jimmy when he talks to the policeman.
In the story, Bob walks along with the man who claims to be Jimmy for a while, and they even start to share experiences, before he realizes that man is not actually Jimmy. Bob only notices it when they step into an area that has better light and that allows him to examine the stranger's face more carefully.
The weather also has a secondary purpose, which is that of setting a sad, bleak tone to the story, foreshadowing a tragic ending.