An Analysis Of Wells's Leopard

In the story “Leopard” by Wells Tower the narrator is an 11 year old boy who has troubles dealing with his stepfather, he wants to stay home from school because of a fungus on his lip which the kids would bully him for. When he makes the decision of staying home from school, he goes through many hurdles coping with his stepfather which shows us the protagonist is self-conscious and a deceiver. The narrator’s encounter with Josh Mohorn revealed self-consciousness when he told the narrator to “take the seat down there” and “I can’t eat my lunch with your fucking burger in my face” which made the narrator feel like his “irremediably a fungus man.”. These things that the kid say to him and he said about himself show his self-consciousness and how