She seemed exactly what any man would want and wanted to spend their life with. Madame Lantin had only two flaws‚ her love for theater and her passion for false jewelry. As time soon told this love struck gent‚ these were not her only flaws. This story gives a perfect example that everything is not always what it seems to be. Madame Lantin was beautiful‚ charming‚ shy and "saintly" but also unfaithful. Lantin did not see this because she did not portray the image that she could be so deceitful
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that. And all he was getting for is his death. Pahom learned his lesson a little too late for him to go back and take back time to where it is at first. When he had a little farm and was contented with his family. It was when he heard the chat of the two sisters‚ bragging about their lives; one from the town and one from the country‚ his wife. II. Analysis a. Characters The story took place in Russia as for Tolstoy is a Russian novelist. Pahom‚ a small time farmer grew tired of his life because
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piece of jewelry. But it is not what the title seems‚ it’s about a man‚ M. Lantin‚ who found the love of his life and how he found out what he thought his wife did behind his back. The story only shows the M. Lantin’s side of the story‚ a man’s point of view‚ but it lacks Lady Lantin’s side of the story. Just by reading the story‚ Guy De Maupassant only wrote what M. Lantin saw and felt‚ but he never mentioned what Lady Lantin thought of her husband or her new marriage life. And in the end‚ after her
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than others based on their own personal decisions they make. In “the Necklace’’ by Guy Maupassant‚ Madame Loisel has very low self-esteem and tries to get everyone’s approval in her life decisions. In ‘’How Much Land Does a Man Need?” by Leo Tolstoy‚ Pahom starts buying land and then becomes greedy wanting more land to own for himself. In “How much Land Does a Man Need?” and “The Necklace”‚ both characters start to be greedy and want more which makes them learn a valuable lesson from their previous
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village decides to sell her estate‚ and the peasants of the village buy as much of that land as they can. Pakhom himself purchases some land‚ and by working off the extra land is able to repay his debts and live a more comfortable life. However‚ Pahóm then becomes very possessive of his land‚ and this causes arguments with his neighbours. "Threats to burn his building began to be uttered." Later‚ he moves to a larger area of land at another Commune. Here‚ he can grow even more crops and amass a
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of things to think about. When I first read the title I totally have the impression that it will be about passion and indulgence into temporal or material things like wealth and luxuries. I thought I was right because the protagonist’s wife‚ Mrs. Lantin has a passion in jewelries‚ however it was mentioned during the first part of the story that her jewelries are fake. So that somewhat gave me an interest to read the story more and further find out what will happen until the end of the story. The
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Fabrizio Noelsaint English II October 26‚ 2012 The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea is the story of an epic battle between an old‚ experienced Cuban fisherman and a large marlin. The novel opens with the explanation that the fisherman‚ who is named Santiago‚ has gone 84 days without catching a fish. Santiago is considered "salao"‚ the worst form of unlucky. In fact‚ he is so unlucky that his young apprentice‚ Manolin‚ has been forbidden by his parents to sail with the old man and
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short story – “How much land does a man need?” — is a religious-morality tale which can be interpreted in a variety of ways‚ but which seems primarily concerned with the destructive consequences of human ambition. The story is about a man named Pahom – a peasant farmer — who desires to acquire more land‚ acquires some land‚ but is not satisfied and needs to acquire more. Eventually he over-reaches‚ forfeits all his accumulated wealth and causes his own death. (*See below for a Summary of story)
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The Role of Women in Trifles and The Jewelry In Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles‚ written around 1915‚ the role of women is superior to the men’s role and in Guy de Maupassant’s story‚ The Jewelry‚ the woman has an inferior role‚ and in the end‚ we find out that she was not a faithful wife. As the two stories are set at the turn of the twentieth century‚ the readers come to believe that women were not treated with much respect or thought to be intelligent; they were merely there to make children and
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happier with his first wife which shows that no amount of money could equal his admiration and adoration he still has for her.”The Merchant observed in mischievous good nature;’the person who owned these must have put all of her saving into jewelry’. Lantin answered with gravity: ‘Perhaps this is as good a way of saving money as any other.’” This suggests that the women could have been caring for her husband even after she has deceased which shows her unimaginable love for him. “The Jewelry” has a lot
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