Analysis Of The Jewelry By Guy De Maupassant

The main character is sent by his father to stay with his grandmother. This is where you learn that the strong heart runs in the family. This is true because she is a seventy-eight year old woman and will still patch out two acres of corn and make enough bread for the winter to do what she can to keep her family feed.  In her old age she hasn’t kept the best health. Some days she is too sick to get out of the bed. The main character takes care of her he cooks all the meals for her and helps her start to feel better. Living with her he hears stories of his father and how he is an honest man. Also his grandmother tells him about his grandfather and all the great things he would do.  Living with his grandmother is a great experience for the main character because she brings him history of his family and teaches him many things on how to live a content life.

Sister Marie is called to a meeting in Paris regarding the convents pension. The nuns agree to send their blessed Infant King with Sister Marie to Paris in hopes to keep the King safe from all evil. Days after Sister Marie left, her fellow Carmelite nuns were arrested by the French revolutionists. As the nuns travel to the Paris Square to be beheaded, they begin singing songs. Sister Marie with the Infant King watches her sisters get martyred.

Sixty years ago Granny was to marry her first love, and without provocation or warning her day of joy become the day that would forever haunt her. She often wonders, "What does a woman do when she has put on the white veil and set out the white cake for a man and he doesn't come?" (519), this question has been secretly burning inside of her for over six decades. On her death bed, sanity fading, it still haunts her, the feelings of hurt and confusion, never knowing the reason why. She often wonders what kind of life she may have had, "For sixty years she had preyed against remembering him" (519), and forget him

The story begins with a description of the husband. "He was a good husband, a good father" (Le Guin 3), "He was always gentle" (Le Guin 3). These lines create confusion, it makes the audience question. In order for the questions to be answered finalizing the story would have to be done. This foreshadows what will occur later on the story. Le Guin tells about how they first met and about how his sophistication attracted her.

Masculinity is represented in various ways within The Lais of Marie de France. Masculinity is sometimes depicted in untraditional ways through animal representation, the dominance of women, and in negative a light through the prideful and selfish acts of the male characters. The qualities, which are often seen as manly, are quite apparent in an animalistic form of masculinity in the deer in “Guigemar,” in comparison to the female lover. The women in “Lanval” show a sense of manhood in their authority and power over the situations of the story. “Les Deus Amanz” tells a poignant story of two men, and how their over masculine traits of pride, jealousy, and possessiveness lead them to the exact places in which they were avoiding all along. All

How would one react to their beloved's terrible secret? The person on the receiving end would either be disgusted, or just accept it without judging the other. In the short story "A Woman without Prejudice", we are shown the internal conflict of the male protagonist about whether to tell his lover about his past. His lover on the other hand deeply loves him for who he is.

In the middle of the trip to Aunt Ida's, Rayona wonders what will happen to her. Standing on a hill overlooking Ida's house, Christine runs and leaves Rayona. In a short lapse of time, Rayona has lost her mother and gained an unwilling caretaker. The treatment from both women causes Rayona to question her own value as a person; she finds herself of little worth. As life on the reservation slowly progresses, Father Tom befriends Rayona. While the priest's intentions are innocent, he ends up causing Rayona to feel more poorly about herself. So Rayona runs, she tries to escape from her difficulties at the reservation. At the lake, she decides to begin a new life. Several things happen to Rayona at the camp. The ways her co-workers behave toward her depress her further, and then the letter she finds causes her to want what is perceived as a normal life. Though also at the lake, begins a turning point for Ray

Guy De Maupassant is recognized as one of the finest writers of the modern short story. Maupassant’s literary career began in 1880 in France. He was a marvelous writer of short stories which were based upon the aspects of the French Society, frequently touching sensitive subjects such as social and moral principles. The beauty of Maupassant’s stories is the unpredictability of them, quite identical to life, where things do not always turn up the way one may expect. The short story, Jewelry by Guy De Maupassant is an insightful piece, with a compelling theme of appearance versus reality and that the life is full of irony.

     Finally, in a heated, tearful, and heart-warming debate, Mr. Emerson (George’s father) gives Lucy the last ounce of strength that she needs to complete her transformation from a petty young woman to a subtle heroine. Mr. Emerson sees right through her false excuses for breaking off with Cecil and forces her to realize her genuine feelings of love for George. Lucy succumbs to her passion and overcomes the confining condition of her social class. She tells her family and friends of her love for George Emerson, refusing to hold on to her “distinguished and proper'; behavior, giving into her true desire, and transforming from a petty young woman to a subtle heroine.

Following the death of her son Aibileen gets a job working as a maid for Elizabeth Leefolt who has just had a baby girl Mae Mobley and is in need of help taking care of her. Aibileen tries her best to teach Mae Mobley

Kelly J. Mayes defines plot in The Norton Introduction to Literature as the way the author sequences and paces the events so as to shape our response and interpretation. Every piece of literature contains a plot pattern that follows Freytag’s pyramid. This pyramid consists of an exposition, rising action, a climax, falling action, and a conclusion. Though each story displays this pattern of organization, authors use many different literary devices to differentiate their work and to acquire the response they want to achieve from their audience. The author of “The Jewelry,” Guy De Maupassant, correctly followed Freytag’s Pyramid and used varied literary devices to create a suspenseful read for the audience.

What would you do if your significant other passed on and left you with over 12 million dollars? That's exactly what Guy De Maupassant tries to answer in the short story, “The Jewelry”. The author answers this question by expressing it through the five main parts of a complete story the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and conclusion. Not having a plot in the story it would be the equivalent of reading someones everyday journal. There are many events that happen but they are in a random, that may not make sense. The three of the most important elements of this story are the rising action, climax, and conclusion. This short story allows each of the elements to build on each other creating a greater outcome for the following

At the beginning of the story, Maupassant wrote : “ They had very moderate means, and were honorable, gentle, and quite.” In the third paragraph, he also used some beautiful words to describe how perfect the girl is: “ The young girl was a perfect type of the virtuous woman in whose hands every sensible young man dreams of one day intrusting his happiness. Her simple beauty had the charm of angelic modesty, and the imperceptible smile which constantly hovered about the lips seemed to be the reflection of a pure and lovely soul.” After being “Madame Lantin”, she had shown her ability to make a living with her husband’s small salary, even “seemed to live in luxury”, these parts of descriptions are the direct descriptions of Madame Lantin, in order to told us she was not only a beautiful woman but also a virtuous wife. The sweet marriage between Monsieur Lantin and his wife was not true. She was not as pure as she pretended. She betrayed her husband. The irony is that it seems that Maupassant was praising Madame Lantin at first but in fact, his attitude to her is critical(Zhang Li,2014),that is also a theme of the story: the appearance of beauty is not always true

It is a conventional story where nothing is said that "might offend the general public or be considered a lapse of taste" (Arner 2). Conventional thinking is shown when the heroine, a beautiful and voluptuous Spanish girl who represents the "bad" woman, gives up the idea of marrying a wealthy rice planter and marries a man she does not really want. Alcée also conforms to this thinking, and instead of marrying the hot, beautiful, full-bodied Calixta he desires, he takes the more conventional wife-figure Clarisse.

Clarissa is trying to arrange a party to celebrate the fact that Richard has won a literary award, but is getting little help from Richard's ex-lover, Louis. As she labors to help Richard through another day, he wonders if his life is worth the unending struggle. In the end, it is the individual who must determine their own destiny.