Literary Analysis: The Diamond Necklace, By Guy De Maupassant

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Chris Ibe Professor D. Boone ENGL 1301 September 18, 2015 “The Diamond Necklace” Literary Analysis Rough Draft Guy de Maupassant, the author of “The Diamond Necklace”, was born on August 5th, 1850. Guy de Maupassant is considered “the father of the Modern Short Story”, because of his outstanding technique of telling entertaining stories in a small amount of space. The behavior of the bourgeoisie, the rich class of France, caused Maupassant to despise them. For this reason, he targeted them in his writings. Later in his life, Maupassant was affected with a mental illness; this caused him to attempt suicide on January 2nd, 1892. After this event, he was preserved in a private shelter in France. Maupassant died later that year. (Guy de Maupassant) …show more content…

“She had no gowns, no jewels, nothing. And she loved nothing but that. She felt made for that. She would have liked so much to please, to be envied, to be charming, to be sought after.” (Maupassant). All of these things could only be imagined in her mind. The luxurious life was never a reality for her, but only a dream she greatly wanted to come true. In result, this attitude of jealousy caused her to fall into depression. Maupassant used a strange word “sphinxlike”. The word is most commonly used to describe things that are difficult to comprehend to, but the author used it to describe someone while they are eating exotic food. Maupassant writes, “…and she thought of delicious dishes served on marvelous plates and of the whispered gallantries to which you listen with a sphinxlike The plot is very believable, because this very story is capable of happening today. People throughout the globe have misplaced goods containing an expensive price tag. For example, a woman placed her mother’s ring in a hat when she decided to swim. When she returned to the shore, she didn’t realize the ring was missing from the hat until she was on her way home. The individual stated she was still downtrodden that she lost an item with a precious value. (INCLUDE WHERE I GOT THIS

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