The objective of Sartre’s “Patterns of Bad Faith” is to demonstrate the structure of bad faith, the ways in which it manifests, and the reasons for its being. Bad faith, as Sartre describes it, proclaims “human reality as a being which is what it is not and which is not what it is” (p. 100). What is meant by this is that bad faith seeks to prescribe an essence to an individual based on ontic properties. The best example given by Sartre in the text would be that of the waiter. The waiter chooses to believe that the job he is performing is a part of his being. He’s a waiter, and there is nothing else he can be. Bad faith makes these claims about one’s nature so that it can at same time deny it. You make the choice to belief that being a waiter