How far would one person go to make the rightfulness be known? If you know that you are innocent of an accusation, do you have to tell all you know? Guy de Maupassants character, Hauchcome, in A Piece of String, is the type of character who involve everybody to agree with him to validate his opinion. Because of his need to be validated by others, Hauchcome makes his situation worse.
Hauchcome is accused of picking up a traveling bag and is taken to the mayor to be questioned. In the beginning of the story, Hauchcome picks up a piece of string and doesnt want to be seen committing such a frugal act. He knows that a neighbor is ceremonial him, so he searches for an object that doesnt exist. Most people nowdays wouldnt headland being seen picking up a piece of string. The count isnt really a big deal and a persons account isnt at risk for being ruined for such undecomposable act. If it were myself that picked up the piece of string, I would have picked it up and went just about my normal business.
The mayor calls upon him to be interrogated about the object in question (a missing pocketbook) and is barely proven innocent. Some other person picked it up and returned it.
After he is questioned and proven innocent, Hauchcome insists on proving to everybody he meets that he is innocent of the accused crime. It isnt enough for him that he and his accusers know he is innocent, so he has to make incontestable that everybody knows he is. By telling everybody, he just makes his artlessness more questionable. I wouldnt have tried to prove and knock my innocence to every person I knew. As farsighted as my accusers and I knew I was innocent, that...
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