Research Paper On Guy De Maupassant

“Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.” (Maupassant).

Guy de Maupassant, also known as Henri René 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 and his short stories and novels are still among the most well-known French literature. The story “The Jewelry” is one of his viewpoints for the marriage, filled with dishonesty and secrets. Indeed, discovering the deceits would attribute

One critic also suggested if not Maupassant’s mother, Maupassant would never be introduced into the literature world. An independent-minded woman who was fond of classical literature and model for Maupassant’s life. This is one of the reasons for a woman of superiority in the story, whether it was a deceitful person or not. In the story, Mrs. Lantin was the one who ruled the economy the household, ever smiling person even though there was no guarantee for a wealthy status. This was the symbol image that Maupassant established from the image he had for his mother. Even though, she risked her social disgrace to the legal divorce with her husband, she made sure that Maupassant would obtain education and discipline from ecclesiastical society. Due to this, Guy de Maupassant illustrated sequence of event in the story which reveals slight perceptions of the seven sins, beginning with the event setting for the shock and shame that Mr. Lantin discovered, which is the deceit of his wife, altered to wrath(rage) to himself saying “The fool! —oh! what a fool” (De Maupassant 658). Then, when Mr. Lantin came into the possession of the money, he began to experience greed. With all that tainted money, the thought of pride that comparing the emperor with himself dawned upon. He consumed wine for breakfast to the point of wasting the money he received and selfishly bring out the gluttony of himself. Of

That is, he did not subscribe to the prevailing values and beliefs of the culture in which he lived, and he was thus able to observe them from a critical distance. Firstly, Maupassant emphasized on the protagonist of the story, Mr. Lantin, who was a person with full trust and loved his wife. Maupassant, unquestionably, had a purpose for Mr. Lantin’s character. That was to create a medium between the reader and the text and to make the readers to stand on the shaky ground of an unfamiliar world. The personality of Mrs. Lantin which Mr. Lantin knew before his discovery of his wife having affair and after, introduced Maupassant’s rational idea to show the realism of marriage life. Before the discovery, Mr. Lantin knew that his wife “ruled his home … they really seem to live in luxury” (De Maupassant 656). The word “ruled” could mean his wife had his full trust and that trust was a perfect filter when she “yielded to go to the theatre just to please and stay with him” (656). Moreover, when the narrator presented Mrs. Lantin with “lips seemed like the reflection of her heart” (Maupassant 5) was ironically deceitful and gave the impression of skeptical version of “angelic purity”. The repeated word “seem” in “The Jewelry” was very important as it would acquire great resonance later in the story. In fact, the seeds of its tragedy are sown in these first few