Tony eating the lemon: provocative or innocent?
While eating during the meeting with Sosa and Omar, Tony ends the meeting by eating the lemon in the finger bowl, then Omar properly uses the finger bowl by dipping his fingers in to wash them.
Was Tony provoking them or does he truly not know the purpose of the bowl?
Does he want to provoke them by eating everything they put in front of him - note that he also cleans the plate of the previous meal that Omar barely touched - to show Sosa he wants it all since the world is his?
Or is he innocent and he truly doesn't know what the bowl is used for?
Best Answer
That is an interesting interpretation.
Although my first thought was that it's a display of his lack of finesse; he's a man that grew up poor and was never taught how to deal with fine things that only wealthy people would have to. He just got a lot of money all of a sudden.
Growing up poor, fruits are food not decoration. If you want to clean up your hands, you use a napkin or wash it in water and soap.
So not growing up with these bowls for washing food grease off your hands it might appear to him it's just a fancy way to present the fruit; might as well just eat the lemon.
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