Deception is seen within Neil Gaiman’s “The Case of Death and Honey”. Deception is unique in this work because Sherlock is hiding the cure for aging, and fools the people of the town into thinking he is a different person, a young man, shown here: “There were tales of a barbarian who passed through the village on his way east, but the people who told Old Gao this did not believe that it could have been the same man that lived in Gao’s shack. This one was young and proud, and his hair was dark. It was not the old man who had walked through those parts in the spring, although, one person told Gao the bag was similar…” (Gaiman 132) Sherlock had found the cure for aging and used it causing him to become a younger man, deceiving the townspeople. The bag isn’t similar, it’s the same one belonging to Sherlock. When Old…show more content… When he left town, he fooled everyone into thinking he was a young man, giving him a way to vanish without a trace. He wanted to deceive everyone so that he could vanish because he didn’t want anyone to find the cure, he finished his personal mission of ‘solving death’ and wanted it destroyed so no one else could have it. This form of deception is similar to what we see in T.S Elliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” with how deception is dealing with an old man and young man but contrasts with the fact that with T.S Elliot’s work, the character is an old man, but the author is a young man and within Neil Gaiman’s work, it is the opposite. This work also contrasts with “The Case of Death and Honey” in the fact the author is deceiving himself into believing that the character is an old man looking back upon his life. This ties in with the idea of “the willing suspension of disbelief,” as the author suspends his belief in his own age to write as an old man looking back upon his life even though he is
