"The Shape of the Sword"

I found the story “The Shape of the Sword” by Jorge Luis Borges very interesting. The ending was truly shocking. This is where the reader learns that the Englishman is actually John Vincent Moon himself all along. As the Englishman, he had admitted to the narrator that he had betrayed the man who had protected him and saved his life. The reader sympathizes for the Englishman at first, but once you learn his true identity, the reader may despise him. The character even prompts the reader to do so because he knew what he did was wrong.