Guy de Maupassant

Lantin grieved so heavily for his wife that he, “...was very nearly following her into the tomb” (Maupassant 68). He lost his will to continue work, and his financial stability soon collapsed. He struggled to provide the few essentials he desired, so he made a decision. He took one of his late wife’s fake pearl necklace and wanted to sell it in order to…

Often in literary works, authors choose a physical object which takes on a special significance in the work and becomes a symbol of something beyond itself. In the stories, The gift of the magi by O. Henry and Lather and Nothing Else by Hernando Tellez, the objects they possessed represented the choice they made and that represents who they are. In The gift of the magi, Jim and Della have their most prized possessions a watch and some hair and In Lather and nothing else, The barber has his…

It’s no secret that when something tragic happens to you, you are no longer the same person as yesterday. The only difference is whether or not the change was for the better or for the worse. In the case of Mathilde in the short story The Necklace by Edgar V. Roberts, her character changes at the end of the story. The story is stretched out for more than 10 years. From the start, Mathilde is a working class housewife who is very miserable because she believes she is more worthy of things that…

mortifying to look poverty- stricken among women who are rich” (Maupassant 2). The story shows Mathilde’s pride and her lack of humility, which resulted on unnecessary hardship and troubles. In the same manner, in the story “A…

In our play, “A Night Under the Stars” I played the roll of William, a senior in high school who never got the opportunity to attend the prom until this year. As glorious as this sounds, William had a problem. William did not have anything to wear, and even with access to money for new clothes from his date Elizabeth he still felt the need to have more. William goes out and borrows a very expensive watch from an old friend named Malcom. After this wonderful prom night William realizes he has…

Compare the ways in which the authors portray the central characters in The Necklace and Veronica. Through The Necklace De Maupassant cleverly crafts a moral fable in the story of Madame Loisel, almost imparting an ideology on the reader to be careful of that which he or she wishes for. He does this in a pre meditated fashion and plays the ironical part of the omniscient narrator. Pearce, when writing Veronica, used a different technique where he takes, what could be a realistic and true story…

In Victorian England, a young heroine fell in love and became engaged to a rich socialite man, not knowing he had a secret; a secret that would be revealed on their wedding day. When found out by the heroine, this discovery would leave her utterly distraught and with no choice but to flee to the country. This is the situation that is faced by Jane Eyre in the book Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Eventually, it is discovered that the man, Edward Rochester was already married. He was married to…

Throughout these stories, the characters have significant problems that bring on big choices and consequences in the end. In “The Necklace”, the woman and her husband are not very wealthy. She can't afford a nice dress or jewelry to wear to a fancy party with wealthy people. She borrows a necklace from her friend, but happens to lose it afterwards. Now she is faced with the the choice to confess losing the necklace or to find an excuse covering it up. The story quotes “The necklace was no longer…

AGE OF INNOCENCE By Edith Wharton Character Map : In 1870 how the rich people spending their life ,one of its glimpse shown in Age of Innocence.strong and rich people make their own rules for society,and they were strong obeying that rules and someone or something goes against it they become sad.. The Age of Innocence is the story of a troubled marriage ,Newland Archer is the hero of this novel,one day he came to theater to meet people but there he saw a beautiful girl named “May welland”…

1. In the story “The Necklace”, Mrs. Loisel we learn, is a very gorgeous lady, but lives poorly. She is married to a clerk in the Ministry of Education. She thinks highly of herself, as if she was made to be born into the luxurious lifestyle. She has a friend, Madame Forestier, who is very wealthy, and lends a diamond necklace to Mrs. Loisel. The central conflict of this story is the loss of the diamond necklace. She loses it just after the big ball, and spends the next 10 years of her life…