The other day in class, we were discussing Tim’s lies and what they meant to us. Mr. Mitchell and some other students seemed incredibly frustrated by the fact that the biggest things, including the man Tim “killed” and Norman Bowker, were lies. Others believed that, in a work of fiction, we shouldn’t be surprised when the author gives us a little fiction, and thus didn’t understand why everyone was all up in arms about Tim lying. The last group of students, the one that I belong to, weren’t incredibly bothered by the majority of Tim’s lies but found his invention of Kathleen to be his most betraying and despicable lie, despite the fact that it’s arguably his most insignificant. Since credibility is such a discussed topic in this collection, I decided that for my blog post I’d give my own opinion, as well as an argument for why the lie about Kathleen was so frustrating. All of Tim’s big lies seem to suit some larger meaning. Inventing Norman Bowker gave him the opportunity to de