Gawaine Le Coeur-Hardy Character Analysis

Gawaine Le Coeur-Hardy, a strong and easily deceivable young man, who is forgetful, cowardly, and naive is perceived as incapable of completing any task. Throughout the story “The Fifty-First Dragon” written by Heywood Broun, Gawaine is shown as a cowardly boy who attends a school that is unlike any other. The professors at this school offer jousting classes and classes that teach their students how to kill dragons. Gawaine, too scared to involve himself in jousting, chooses to hide from his instructors leading him to almost be expelled. The professors of the school made the decision to have Gawaine become a dragon slayer. To their surprise Gawaine used his strength to kill off the dummy dragons with ease. When he was told that he could go out and kill his first dragon Gawaine asked if he could have a cap of invisibility due to the fact he was scared but his professors offered him a magic word instead. He then
Gawaine is easily fooled into thinking his word rumplesnitz is magic and thought a magical cap that could make his invisible existed. He was easy to deceive. He perceived himself incapable of killing a dragon without that magic word and that led to his death. His false hope created to carry him along seemed to be all an act to get him to see his true potential but Gawaine is easily deceived. He led himself to believe that he was incapable of killing a dragon without his magic word. Unlike Gawaine I am not naive and I have always known better. I know what is going on around me and I tend to know when someone is lying to me. For instance, there have been cases where one of my friends would tell little white lies all the time and I am able to tell that they are not truths but I stay quiet most of the time. I also differ in Gawaine in the way that I don't believe everything that anyone says or that I read about. I have always been hesitant to completely believe a story that I hear because for all I know it might not be