Question

why o henry said john was a hyprocrtic

Answer 1

The word hypocrite means the person tries to shows what he is not. John is such type of man.He said that he did not believe in the romance portrayed in best sellers. He believed the stories too good to be true. However, his own story was fantastical. His wife, the only daughter of the oldest family in Virginia, met him, an ordinary travel salesman of a plate glass company, in a journey where he would have least expected to find his life partner. Their courtship also was too fantastical, and even after all the episode, the fashion in which Pescud criticised love stories of best sellers proves him to be a hypocrite.

Answer 2

O Henry said that john is a hypocrite because john said that he didn't like best sellers they are unrealistic but on another hand the same story like a best sellers was happened in his life.

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