Jewelry

A detailed Summary of Jewelry

Writers in their works, carefully describing circumstance in great

detail, can influence reader's interpretation of an action as moral or immoral:

A prostitute can be represented as a noble lady, and the most upright woman

as an angry witch. The narrator can make a reader feel nothing for the

victim, but rather for the killer. In his short story "Jewelry", Guy de Maupassant

closely describes an emotional condition, physical condition, and the surrounding people

of the major character M. Lantin, justifying him in front of the readers, even though M.

Lantin breaks man's concept of morality.

M. Lantin's emotional condition influences his view of the life, his image

of happiness and luck. After six years of boundless happiness in his

marriage, emotionally and spiritually destroyed by his loss, M. Lantin is crying

about his dead wife. The author squeezes the reader's hearts by describing

the suffering, which M. Lantin goes through in his life: "He wept from morning

until night "(de Maupassant 16). When M. Lantin finds out that his happiness in his

marriage was a mirage, he loses all his beliefs and meaning to life, but still, Guy de

Maupassant does not let his protagonist die

" His despair was frightful that in one single month his hair turned white" (de

have fortunes" (de Maupassant 18). The woman, whom M. Lantin idolized for six years

that money can bring freedom to do whatever he wants: "How lucky the men are who

pockets" (de Maupassant 18). Seeing this, M. Lantin starts to dream about being rich, and

out with grief and fatigue" (de Maupassant 18), gets back his strength, which raises his

ready for a new life: "He felt jolly enough to play leapfrog over the Emperor's head - up

about M. Lantin's morality. Guy de Maupassant does not influence us by judging his

Approximate Word count = 821
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels

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