Dynamic And Dynamic Characters In The Madame Loisel

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HOOKFILLER___________________________________________________________________________________________________________. All of the stories had a static or dynamic character, a person that either changed over the course of the story or a person that stays the same. You can tell a character is dynamic or static by the thoughts and feelings or what they do in the story. In the gift of the magi Della was a static character. The other two, most dangerous game and the necklace where both dynamic characters. They both changed how they view the world, like how in the necklace madame loisel at the beginning was the person who thought she deserved the world and she didn't have to do anything, but by the end she learned that hard work is how you find happiness. …show more content…
Madame Loisel was disappointed she could not get luxuries like her friends had, that she had to settle for a “civil servant at the ministry of education”(333). Though she thought she deserved better than a simple life, that she should be able to have anything in her life because she was “beautiful.” Also when her husband came home with news of her being able to go to a ball she said she had nothing to wear and when they finally got a dress for her to wear she complained about having no jewelry. She was forced to ask a friend to borrow a “superb diamond necklace”(336) She didn't just accept the fact that she got to go to a ball and be happy about it she was angry because she had nothing to wear even though she had a dress that would sify the party. In addition, after the party she noticed she had lost the necklace, so she had to buy a replacement for her fiend so her friend wouldn't know that she had lost it. “After 10 years they made good of everything including the various rates and compound interests” after she worked for something that she bought she felt good, she was humbled because she never had to work for anything because her husband would buy her whatever she wanted(340). She was …show more content…
Rainsford was on the boat talking to whitney because whitney was saying animals do have feelings but rainsford disagree “who cares about how a jaguar feels”(). Rainsford was so attached to hunting he doesn't seem to care about what the animals feel. Soon thereafter Rainsford had set a trap for Zarroff, so Rainsford wouldn't die. Zarroff was running when rainsford trap had been set off “the knife driven by recoil of spinning tree had not wholly failed”(235). Rainsford feared for his life since he was the one getting hunted not someone or something else. One last time Rainsford and General Zarroff where having a battle “one of us is to fumish repast to the hounds. The other will sleep in this excellent bed”(). Even when rainsford was scared he still needed to keep calm so he would make a mistake, Rainsford changed over the course of the story by finally realizing that things that are hunted do in fact feel

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