and the lack of being responsible. Moving along with irresponsibility, while still drunk, Jim goes to sleep and he "lit it [bed] with a cigarette," forgetting to put the cigarette out on the night before (Lucky Jim 69). Any man of virtue would confess the crime and pay for the damages. Instead of confessing, Jim hides the bed sheet and arranges a getaway. Not only does this show Jim's irresponsibility but also his insincerity toward his friends. A hero must be totally sincere and pious toward his companions. For example, Virgil's hero, Aeneas, gets his epithet of pious because he shows devotion toward his friends, country, and his gods. Jim is the immediate opposite of Aeneas because he goes through a series of wrongdoings such as stealing his friend's fiancée, Christine, like a classless man of society. Furthermore, intending to claim Christine, he unreasonably hits Bertrand, the friend who is engaged with Christine, "very hard indeed on the larger and more convoluted of his ears" (Lucky Jim 209). Not giving aid to his friend is simpl
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