11/18/15 Reading Journal, Useless Beauty by Guy de Maupassant.
Vocabulary: Despotic -of or typical of a despot; tyrannical. Obstinate -firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion, etc.; not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty.
Antipathy -a natural, basic, or habitual repugnance; aversion. Perfidious -deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful:
Summary*
Useless Beauty is the story Countess De Gabrielle, and her husband The Comte De Mascaret Whom find themselves at a bitter and hateful point in their marriage. At which point the Countess De Gabrielle in a fit of grief and rage confesses to her husband of her single past perfidious crime committed without love nor pleasure but solely for the purpose of betraying her
Vocabulary: Despotic -of or typical of a despot; tyrannical. Obstinate -firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion, etc.; not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty.
Antipathy -a natural, basic, or habitual repugnance; aversion. Perfidious -deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful:
Summary*
Useless Beauty is the story Countess De Gabrielle, and her husband The Comte De Mascaret Whom find themselves at a bitter and hateful point in their marriage. At which point the Countess De Gabrielle in a fit of grief and rage confesses to her husband of her single past perfidious crime committed without love nor pleasure but solely for the purpose of betraying her