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Hypocrisy In 'Do The Right Thing'

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In the short story “Doing the Right Thing”, the main character, Kwe, holds an outsider status from the members of the firearms course as she is Indigenous. Due to her different status from the individuals in the firearms course, she can expose the hypocrisy of others through the stories that are told, the beliefs of others, and the lessons others try to teach. To begin, Big Chief, the firearm course instructor, begins the course by retelling a story about his best friend and when they were younger. The two of them were out hunting and the friend accidentally kills one of the nearby farmer's hens. As Kwe describes this story she ends it by saying that “The moral of the story is that you have to respect the people whose land you are hunting on” (28). …show more content…

On the contrary, Big Chief lives on Kwe’s territory and does not respect the land on which he hunts, shown when he does not even recognize the hypocrisy in what he says. When he says this, it offends Kwe leading her to expose his hypocrisy. Secondly, when the other instructor, Eric, exclaims that “it's ok if the Crees shoot sitting ducks on the water because bread costs ten dollars up there, and they are hunting for food and not for sport” (30), Kwe does not take this well. Mentally, she replies with “Well thank god, no one wants to be a bad sport” (30). This quotation shows Kwe exposing the hypocrisy of Eric as she makes a sarcastic comment about Eric’s beliefs. She exposes that Eric cares more about being a “bad sport” than other larger problems such as most of the animals being hunted on the Mississauga's land; which he would not care about unless he had a similar status as

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