Rat is being malicious. He’s just improving the truth. O’Brien does the same thing throughout the book, although he is more about changing the way things happen.
“A real tiger’ said eddie diamond. ‘ D-cup guts, trainer bra brains” (92).
Eddie said a real tiger because Fossie was not doing his job in taking care of Mary Anne and he wanted to teach him how to do it.
“There were dark smudges under his eyes, the frayed edges of somebody who has not slept in awhile” (95).
Fossie had been looking really tired because he had stayed up till midnight trying to find or see where Mary Anne would go.
“At the girl’s throat was a necklace of a human tongue” (105).
Mary Anne had a necklace