To Lázaro's surprise, the nobleman is just as poor, hence, Lázaro is forced to solicit rations from the neighbors and steal from the funerals. With this guide, he seems to show more pity than resentment because both are equally famished. Ultimately, hunger for food and for status becomes his next goal. In the company of his next masters, he acquires food but, more importantly, he is able to buy himself clothes and a sword that would feign his importance. After achieving his primary objective of nourishment, he is able to proceed and to get married. However, this marriage is not a demonstration of love but rather of reputation. Above all, the necessity of hunger and acceptance superseded the necessity for love and friendship, but often the former was mistaken for those virtues of the latter.
Honor is equated with the appearance upheld by an individual in Lázaro's society. When he is living with the priest, Lázaro notices how he is quite vigilant towards all the money the congregation would put in as well as on the location of Lázaro's wily hand. The priest's main concern was his own well-being. When he dined with others, he ate greedily, nevertheless, when he would spend, the meal was eaten more modestly and in a smaller proportion. His honor rested on his clerical cloak but did not go any further than the apparent. Along with the priest's erroneous honor, there was the mercedarian friar. It is inferred that he and the prostitutes, whom Lázaro had spoken with, had intimate relations. Lázaro had been directed to this friar by these women of ill repute. They said he was a relative although, that was a common front for holy men to use in order to seek sexual companionship from these females. Through money and status, he was able be considered honorable enough so that his unchaste secrets were not delved into much deeper and instead, were frequently overlooked.
