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A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares 3 short stories. Elizabeth Tallent in "No One's a Mystery," Guy de Maupassant in "The Jewelry," and Ernest Hemingway in "Hills Like White Elephants" each picture people who are, presumably, in the midst of a deeply romantic relationship. They are in love. While society tends to picture love as altruistic and uncomplicated, these writers show another side to intimate relationships, one that includes infidelity, failures to communicate, and frank self-centered manipulation of the beloved to suit one's one ends. No additional sources cited.
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who are, presumably, in the midst of a deeply romantic relationship. They are in love. While society tends to picture love as altruistic and uncomplicated, these writers show another side
to intimate relationships, one that includes infidelity, failures to communicate, and frank self-centered manipulation of the beloved to suit ones one ends. Tallent illustrates infidelity and the idealization of
love that is typical of the extremely young. The unnamed narrator, a girl of eighteen, riding around with her lover, Jack, in his pickup truck. Jack has given her a
five-year diary for her eighteenth birthday present. They each agree that "Tonight youll write, I love Jack. This is my birthday present from him. I cant imagine anybody loving anybody
more than I love Jack" (Tallent 6). However, Jack predicts that she will lose interest in him within a year, to which the girl counters that they will marry and
have children. This brief story illustrates the point that when two people are at different points in life, it is hard to communicate. Jack, an older married man, knows that
this young girl will mature and when she does, he will lose her. However, the narrator is caught up in youthful idealism that does not see the problems in
this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity play a key role in De Maupassants story. M. Lantin meets a young country
girl who is sweet natured, quiet and gentle and falls madly in love. While M. Lantins salary is modest, they manage to live lavishly, a fact that the Lantin
attributes to his wifes household management skills. As this indicates, early on in this story De Maupassant signals to the reader that something is amiss as being frugal with money
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