that it sure is changing a lot now
1. they may want to keep someone's innocence or not burden another person by telling them the truth
2. they might be very competitive and hate seeing others be better than them, so they might continuously lie to their opponents
3. they could be a person who really wants to have a perfect image so they lie about their struggles
Perhaps in order to build up the suspense. After all, A MOST DANGEROUS GAME is a thrilling piece of work.
Cyclops is motivated to do this because Odysseus tricked him and humiliated him, and even had the hubris in the end to mess with him about it. Poseidon is the Cyclops' father so naturally the Cyclops wants help and Poseidon can do it because Odysseus is traveling by sea.
Answer:
Yes, I agree that human attachment to appearnce is an important theme in the short story "The Nose".
Explanation:
The theme of appearance and identity is the foremost and recurring idea in the short story "The Nose" by Nikolai Gogol. The story follows the character of Major Kovalyov and his efforts to retrieve his lost nose.
The human attachment to appearance is an important theme in the story. This is because when Major Kovalyov discovered that his nose had 'escaped', he did everything he could to get it back. When he initially found his nose missing, he hid his face while going out, dreading meeting anyone he might recognize. He even went to the newspaper office to place an ad about his missing nose.
