Guy de Maupassant

Description Patient is a young man in his early 20's, with black hair, pale skin, dark eyes, and a skinny frame. His family are fish merchants, who recently became the nouve riche by inventing canned fish. The patient's mother seems to be quite possessive over him and is constantly trying to correct her son. The father seems to be much more gentle in nature then his wife. It seems that the mother runs the family. Patient seems to be very shy, and easily startled. He struggles socially,…

How You Destroy Her You destroy her the moment she stops being an adventure. When she's no longer exciting, when rolling over to see her doesn't bring butterflies anymore, when kissing her has become a task. You destroy her when you let the fire die, when the sparks are ceasing. When taking her out to places does not stun you anymore, when you'd rather hang out with other people than her. When seeing her smile is not an advantage anymore. You destroy her when she's no long an inspiration but…

"The Necklace" is a story about a woman named Mathilde and she was semi-wealthy and got greedy. A friend let Mathilde borrow a "expensive" necklace for a evening reception that Mathilde accidentally lost, she then found out how much the necklace was worth and she had to buy another one and basically destroyed her life because of her greed. Then years after Mathilde was poor paying off the necklace and then she found out the necklace was fake and she didn't need to spend all that money. That's…

The Necklace (continued) First Person “Oh, my poor, poor Mathilde! Mine was false. It was worth five hundred francs at the most!” Those were the words spoken to me before all of the haunting memories come back to me. All that time wasted being poor, when all I wanted in life was to be rich. When I came home that one day from the Ramponneau, the long taxi ride home only to inform my husband that night that I had lost my best friends real necklace. We worked up a fortune for that stupid thing…

Happiness by Living Life Simply Babette’s Feast (Gabriel Axel 1988), centers around Martine and Philippa, two sisters living in a protestant parish in Jutland. For them, food is used for sustenance rather than pleasure. Unexpectedly, a refugee from Paris shows up at their doorstep. The woman’s name is Babette and she is taken in by the two sisters. Having lost everything at the hands of a vengeful revolution, Babette rebuilds her life around the bland gastronomy of the parsonage. As a famous…

In most wars, men are usually called into duty more often than women are. Often, there were no women around the camps the men were stationed, leaving the men in an isolated state where only the presence of a woman could bring them back some joy. The Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong communicates the story of Mary Anne Belle who was brought to Vietnam by her lover, who miss her company. It is also about the deductive analysis of Mary Anne Belle and is a collection of the progression of her…

The Final Essay Compare and Contrast In the short story “The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin and the “The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassan, the main characters are females and house wives. While they have many things in common, one character experiences death, while the other character experienced a life lesson. The theme of love marriage and life set motion for quilt, freedom and lust in two short stories “The Story of an Hour” and “The Necklace” written by Kate Chopins. “In the story of an…

Inequality and social class are examples of conflicts that help develop the thematic topic in many ways. The stories “The Stolen Party” by Liliana Heker and “Borders” by Denice Frohman both show how inequality develops the story and the poem. The theme and quotes help the story and the poem develop. In “The Stolen Party”, Rosaura and her mother are faced with poverty and inequality, and she is invited to her friend’s party and is teased by her “friend’s cousin because of her social class. She…

story that Mathilde lying keeps leading her to the wrong path. Mathilde lying ruined her life and caused great pain to her and her husband Monsieur who is a hard working clerks who tries his best to make his wife happy. In the story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassan shows us why lying is not the right thing…

Les Belles-Soeurs is a story of the struggle of the lower-middle class. Les Belles-Soeurs is a play about a group of women in Montreal who are just trying to get by in their mediocre lives. The women take advantage of each other, and seem to be friends only because of their proximity to each other. The women interact as though they are all just there because of their circumstance, not because they chose to be in their situations. This causes the women to act selfishly, ignoring common courtesy,…