The Jewelry By Guy De Maupassant - 794 Words

Two Most Valued Possessions In literature, stories have countless ways of teaching a lesson or presenting a hidden message. A story in literature, for example, may function as a didactic medium. A didactic medium is a means of teaching the reader something materially useful. In the short story, â€Å"The Jewelry† by Guy de Maupassant, there is a didactic medium that Maupassant portrays. The didactic medium in this short story is always pay attention to minor details. The details may seem unimportant, however they can result in a greater outcome. In the story, M. Lantin and his wife live off of 3,500 francs a year that he makes as a chief clerk in the office of the Minister of the Interior. Madame Lantin takes care of all the furnishing and household needs. After the passing of his wife, M. Lantin stands dumbfounded at how she affords such necessities when he can barely sustain himself as illustrated by the statement, â€Å"But life became hard for him. His salary, which, in h is wife’s hands, had amply sufficed for all household needs, now proved scarcely sufficient to supply his own few wants† (page 53). This quote shows that M. Lantin struggles financially without the assistance of his wife. This is one of the details within the story that hints at Madame Lantin receiving money from an unknown source. Furthermore, Madame Lantin has an eye for jewelry even though she states the pieces are not real. She loves to wear an elegant pearl necklace, pebble earrings, and bracelets. M.Show MoreRelated`` The Jewelry `` By Guy De Maupassant892 Words   |  4 Pageseverything is possible, everything is doubtful.† (Guy de Maupassant). Guy de Maupassant, also known as Henri Renà © Albert Guy de Maupassant, was one of the most famed French novelists in the world. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story and a writer who was successful in his own time, immensely popular, prosperous and feted by society. He left an immerse impact on literature, including six novels and three hundred short stories. Guy de Maupassant lived a short but highly productive life andRead MoreThe Jewelry, By Guy De Maupassant And O Connor913 Words   |  4 PagesHowever, short stories do not have nearly as much time to display a theme. In Guy de Maupassant’s The Jewelry, the main character, Lantin sees and experiences change through his life after his wife passes away. In Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to find, the grandmother’s actions cost an entire family’s life. Both stories contains a similar theme but in different ways. Despite their short time frames, Maupassant and O’Connor both reveal a similar didactic medium- nobody is perfect. Maupassant’sRead MoreAnalysis Of The Story Jewelry By Guy De Maupassant 1063 Words   |  5 PagesGuy De Maupassant is recognized as one of the finest writers of the modern short story. Maupassant’s literary career began in 1880 in France. 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Among all his w ork, â€Å"Boule De Suif† and â€Å"Jewelry† stands out as most preeminent due to its depiction of human nature and unexpectedRead MoreThe Necklace And The Bet Short Story867 Words   |  4 Pagesyou ever read an intense short story? Well both â€Å"The Necklace† and â€Å"The Bet† are the most intense short stories ever. Both authors from both passages explain the dialogue by discovering new aspects of the passages. In â€Å"The Necklace† written by Guy de Maupassant (1884), is about how a character called Mathilde that loses one of her friends necklace, that was a fake, and spends the next 10 years paying it off. On the other hand â€Å"The Bet† written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1889) is about a lawyer andRead Moremarxism in the necklace1512 Words   |  7 Pages Textual Analysis of â€Å"The Necklace† In â€Å"The Necklace†, Guy de Maupassant uses a woman’s life, and very important event in it, to depict the Marxism of his or her lifetime, especially amongst women. He uses comparisons and downfalls of her life to depict society’s shortcomings and beliefs of class. Marxism looks at the economic and social structures of a society and the draws attention to the struggles between the classes. A Marxist might believe that people are born as creations of economical orRead MoreTheme of Reality vs. Appearances in â€Å"the Necklace†1617 Words   |  7 PagesAlbert Guy de Maupassant was born on August 5, 1850 in the chateau de Miromesnil near Dieppe, Normandy. He lived in Fecamp, France until age twelve (when his parents separated) then moved with his mother to a villa in Etretat, France. Home-schooled, except for a brief stay at a boarding school when he was thirteen, Maupassant ran free for most of his school years. Maupassant attended university in Paris, where he began to study law, and then served in the army in the Franco-Prussian war. Guy de Maupassant’s