The Jewlery

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The story of “The Jewelry” by Guy De Maupassant dealt with a man named Monsieur who was cheated on his wife by Madam Lantin. Maupassant Monsieur loved his wife who was from a small country town. While she had meat with many wealthy families, the beautiful and then young Madam Lantin had given her hand in marriage to Monsieur, who was exuberated with excitement. Mr. Maupassant showed how the husband in this marriage, like many other men out there, is foolish and blinded by love.
There were many context clues that Maupassant had incorporated into the story trying to give clues to the reader that not all good was going on in Monsieur and Madam Lantin’s household. On page nine, beginning of the fourth paragraph, “She ruled his home with an economy so adroit that they really seemed to live in luxury.” When, a woman/male has control of the relationship and it isn’t mutual, there is bond to be something going on in the relationship. Monsieur had let her have total control of their life-style. Monsieur was blind with love.
Page nine, beginning of paragraph three stated Monsieur Lantin’s salary, “M. Lantin, who was then chief clerk in the office of the Minister of the Interior, with a salary of thirty-five hundred francs a year…” that statement there also goes on to the next clue that Mr. Guy De Maupassant tries to imply of her adultery.
Madam Lantin had bought many “false jewelry”. Maupassant stated her interest in dress or materialistic views. Page nine, middle of paragraph nine, “But she got into the habit of suspending in her pretty ears two big cut pebbles, fashioned in imitation of diamonds; and she wore necklaces of false pearls, bracelets of false gold, and haircombs studded with paste-imitations of precious stones.” If the daughter of a poor, respectable country-tutor, why need all those fake materialistic items. Then Maupassant reinstating the fact that Madam Lantin wasn’t the ...