Jake Barnes

"I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together..." (Hemingway 12)

I am not a very trusting man. People just do not usually tell the truth. I tried to stay away from people in general because I do not enjoy drama much. Unfortunately, I picked the wrong friends anyways. I thought that their bluntness would decrease any problems, but they were too good to be true. When people seem like they are always truthful, odds are that they are almost never truly honest. It is all over now. Now I pay people and they have all been good to me.