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Summary Of The Ways We Lie By Stephanie Ericsson

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A lie is an intentionally false statement. There are many types of lies in society which Stephanie Ericsson categorizes in her story “The Ways We Lie.” Ericsson divides types of lies into ten different groups such as the white lie, facades, ignoring the plain facts, deflecting, omission, stereotypes and clichés, groupthink, out-and-out lies, dismissal and delusion. The white lie is considered a lie that does not hurt people’s feelings. A white lie is a lie when one knows that the truth will affect another person’s feelings. Depending on the situation, Ericsson explains on how the relationship is with one another. To clarify, if a person told his friend that he looked handsome but looked awful, that would be considered a white lie because the
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