Lather And Nothing Else By Hernando Tellez

In the story Lather and Nothing Else by Hernando Téllez, the barber should not have killed commander Torres. When the barber asked how many prisoners they took, Commander Torres answered, “Fourteen, we had to go pretty far into the forest to get them.” Which implies that he has many men so if he ever died they would just get a new leader. This leader could be good or bad, but we don't know and not knowing gives the possibility that it could be worse. At the end of the story, he says, “that it's hard to kill”, meaning he doesn't enjoy it a lot, but there could be somebody who would. Just at the end of the story, Commander Torres tells the barber, “They told me that you could've killed me. ", which suggests that all of Captain Torres's men know