Why Did He Choose Not To Kill The Captain

Register to read the introduction… Proof of this is the way he described it, ".. I am a good barber, the best in town..." (Tellez) and he did not want to jeopardize his reputation or leave his profession altogether. The barber would have to flee if he killed the Captain because he is aware of the negative consequences that would follow. Would he have been a hero if he'd killed him? In a way yes, the revolutionaries would win but only for a matter of time. The government would get another captain soon after and the barber would be executed before long. This proves that he chose the right path in that everyone else’s life would’ve continued on basically the same either way, except he would much rather keep his own life the same.

The barber wanted to keep a clean conscience. As stated at the end of the story, Captain Torres knows when he walks into the barber shop that he is about to face his foe and also that his foe knows about him, yet he still takes a chance and walks in