Question

How does the author strengthen the theme that appearances can be deceiving? in "Hearts and Hands"

Answer 1

One of the main themes of O. Henry's short story "Hearts and Hands" is society's focus on appearances. Even though Mr. Easton is a convict, he successfully puts on the air of a marshal so as not to embarrass himself in front of Miss Fairchild. The interaction shows both how much their social circle cares about keeping up appearances and how deceptive those appearances can be, since they fail to indicate many things, such as criminality.

Answer 2

The way the author strengthens the theme that appearances can be deceiving in "Hearts and Hands" is:

• By the confidence of Mr Easton who is a convict to pretend to be a Marshal.

Based on the complete text, we can see that there is the narration about the social conventions which are used  in the settings of the novel and how this affects appearance.

With this in mind, we can see that  this is shown when Mr Easton successfully deceives Miss Fairchild that he is not a prisoner like he is, but actually a very important person.

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