The short
story "," by Guy De Maupassant, and the short story "Everyday Use," by Alice
Walker, have many similarities. There are also many differences. In terms of the setting, both
stories take place in modest dwellings, with characters who come from little money and little
status in society.
In "The Necklace," Mathilde Loisel is born into
a modest family and marries a man with little means and status. She feels that she was wronged
by being born so humbly. She is dissatisfied with her station in life, her dwelling, clothes,
and husband. In the opening paragraph of the story, this dissatisfaction is described:
"She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as
though fate had blundered over her, into a family of artisans. She had no marriage portion, no
expectations, no means of getting known, understood, loved, and wedded by a man of wealth and
distinction; and she let herself be married off to a little clerk in the Ministry of Education.
Her tastes were simple...
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