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Theme Of Dishonesty In Amy Tan's Little Red Cap: Summary

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Throughout “Little Red Cap” there was a constant theme of dishonesty. As dishonesty was betrayed multiple times throughout the story, the motif of this short story is whether the theme of dishonesty is always trickery or is it not being honest within the story. Trickery is when a character tries to make another character believe something is true, when the character initiating the trickery knows that it is false. The first example of trickery in the story is when Little Red Cap encountered the first wolf. The wolf told Little Red Cap to go deep into the woods to pick flowers for her grandmother. That was trickery because the wolf just wanted to get to the grandmother’s house before Little Red Cap did. Another attempt at trickery was when

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