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The Human Geode-Reversed: An Analysis of How the Setting Portrays Human Nature A phrase that most individuals hear while growing up is “do not judge a book by it’s cover”. In many circumstances, this is true. Some people think of a rough scary gang when they see a biker, or the word “nerd” may come to their mind when they see boy with taped glasses reading an encyclopedia. Often times this biker is a wonderful dad and husband and just enjoys motorcycles, or the nerd may be the coolest kid in school. While these are both positive examples of this maxim, there may also be negative instances. One such instance is when examining the character Bud in “Three Ravens on a Red Ground”, a short story featured in Robert Girardi’s A Vaudeville of Devils: …show more content…

The large collection of “books” would seem to suggest his acumen and brilliance. The array of trinkets could speak to the implied fact that he is a well-rounded man. Bud purposely uses this style in his study to deceive businessmen and the like into presuming that these traits are possessed by him. If an outsider who did not know what Bud was really like were to enter his library, they would assume that he is all of these things and would “judge a book by its cover”. In reality, Bud is truly non of these things. They would not realize that the books were fake and were filled with magazines, which exhibit his egotistical nature. He is mocking the businessmen who believe in the elaborate charade he is hiding behind and views them as dumb, ignorant and inferior to him. In this very room Bud contradicts almost everything implied by the office with his mere words and style of talking. In this lavish, sophisticated room Bud ends a conversation with Tom in an extremely rude and abrupt manner saying, “Listen, I’ve got to take a dump”. There are a million different ways to end a conversation with another coworker that are more elegant than the crude remark that he chose. Although almost all of the attributes hinted at in the room are extremely false and misleading, there is one trait that is portrayed by this study that is somewhat applicable to him. Still he manages to twist this to contribute to his own personal gain-

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