Women in Poverty in the Novels The Necklace Guy de Maupassant and The Gift of the Magi

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The Central Characters of Both These Stories Are Women Who Live In

Poverty But React to Their Circumstances in Very Different Ways. What

Point Is Each Writer Trying To Make?

Both of these stories are about women and their husbands who live in

poverty. One of the wives is not bothered about how they live and the

other wife is very bothered about how she is living poverty as "she

let herself marry a junior clerk in the Ministry of public

Instruction".

Both of these stories have a beginning like any other good story as it

describes the characters and how they think about life but they both

have the twist at the end which I think the turns the reader around or

could confuse younger readers. In The Necklace Guy de Maupassant makes

out that Madame Loisel felt bad about being poor and thought that she

deserves more in life which I think is a bit selfish as she does not

think about other people.

In The Gift of the Magi, Della is not proud of living in poverty but

she does not complain or think she deserves better.

In The Necklace, Madame Loisel only values herself,...

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