Guy de Maupassant

The two stories, “Good Enough” and “The Quinceanera Text” are very interesting passage with deep thought written into them. “Good Enough” is about Dori who wants a very expensive shirt but her family is very poor. The shirt that is received is a fake but Dori comes to realize that Ana does not care what people think and comes to love the shirt. “The Quinceanera Text” is about fifteen year old Ana wanting a phone. Many other presents are received but Ana’s parents cannot afford a phone. Something…

Abstract Saadat Hasan Manto is one of the greatest short story writers in Urdu literature who has produced twenty two collections of short stories dealing with different subjects such as partition, human life, social taboos, communal violence, so on and so forth. His stories revolving round the subject of partition of the subcontinent after independence in 1947 are more famous and more known than his other stories. Toba Tek Singh is one such story, a masterpiece, which is interwoven with the…

A Long time ago in India, women were criticized and stereotyped for their femininity, in particular how they react in a crisis. In “The Dinner Party” by Mona Gardner, women are falsely accused of being weak during a crisis. “The Dinner Party” is set in India, where there is a huge dinner party going on. The colonel makes a false accusation that during a crisis, women usually scream and have less self control than men do. However, the hostess of the party proves him wrong. There is a cobra in…

In Liliana Heker’s “The Stolen Party,” Rosaura is invited to Luciana’s birthday party. Luciana’s family was considered to be a rich family with a high class ranking as they are provided with a maid which is coincidentally, Rosaura’s mother. However, through the work of her mother, Rosaura was able to meet Luciana, who seemed liked a charming young girl. Every work day, Luciana and Rosaura would do their homework together while waiting for Rosaura’s mother to finish up. From this eventful…

Special Effects of Halloween contacts lenses On Halloween, the party and holiday lovers dress up with some unique costumes. They try their best to look the best and for this, they spend lots of money on their dresses. However, when they ready for the occasion, something is always missing due to which they are not able to look perfect in their costumes. What may be the missing thing? The answer is very simple; they are the eyes which don’t match the dress. Due to the eyes the beauty of your dress…

The short story “The Necklace” has a setting during the 19th century and a social class woman Mathilde Loisel is portrayed to have a desire for the luxurious things in life. Dee in the short story “Everyday Use” which takes place in rural Georgia in 1973 is seen as this daughter sent out to college in order to better herself, but in the mist of her return her mother Mrs. Johnson is appalled by the dramatic changes to the way she carries herself. Mathilde is faced with a conflict when she finds…

Sally did not have a man and had to get a job to take care of her mom and herself. Sally's internalization of what it means to be a woman is how she looks. Sally is from the comic "Nothing to Wear". In the comic Sally is a working woman who finds a guy named Neil and they start dating. Things had been going well between them until he asks her to attend a formal dance with him. The problem is she cannot afford…

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owning a nice enough dress, so her husband gives her money for one, but she only further grumbles about needing jewelry. Mathilde even goes as far as to whine about her food. She declares ironically, “Ah! A good stew! There’s nothing I like better…” (Maupassant 1). Mathilde has to express her thoughts using irony to unnecessarily announce the revealing of the stew. These sarcastic commentaries validate that she wishes to be wealthier, and that she is unmindful that the things her husband does…

She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as if by an error of fate, into a family of clerks. She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of becoming known, understood, loved or wedded by a man of wealth and distinction; and so she let herself be married to a minor official at the Ministry of Education. She dressed plainly because she had never been able to afford anything better, but she was as unhappy as if she had once been wealthy. Women don't belong to a caste or class;…