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This 5 page paper examines these two Guy de Maupassant stories in terms of their ability to demonstrate the characteristics of nineteenth century French society. Specifically, this paper examines what these stories portray of class, gender relations and politics. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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classic works, The Necklace and Ball of Fat. These works are intended to have readers question their own values, priorities, and conceptions of gender, and in this quest Maupassant
achieves brilliance. The Necklace is a story about a woman and her greed, and how that greed ends up destroying her
life. Matilda is married to an average man, who makes an average income and provides an average life. She longs to be wealthy and to have the finer
things in life, to the point that she obsesses about it continuously. Whatever joy and happiness she could extricate from her life is impossible since she has made herself
miserable from her longing for wealth and position in society. It happens that she and her husband get invited to a very posh
affair, and being thrilled by at the prospect of mingling with the "right" people, Matilda ends up borrowing a very fine, very large diamond necklace from a friend of hers.
She wears the necklace to the party and for one evening life is all that she dreamed. She feels she is for a moment the woman she was
meant to be - mixing with society people and being decorated with fine jewelry. However, she ends up losing the necklace
and is unable to find it. Unable to tell her friend the truth because of her pride, she and her husband cash in anything and everything of value that
they have, and risk their reputation by signing for credit they dont even know if they can repay. In the end, they buy the woman another diamond necklace just
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