A Vendetta by Guy de Maupassant and the Long Trail by Andrée Checlid

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A Vendetta

A Vendetta by Guy de Moupossant and the long trail written by Andrée Checlid are two stories about revenge. They both discuss women who live in male dominated societies. Although the themes of the stories are basically the same they differ in many ways.  ‘ A Vendetta’ describes an elderly woman who wanted revenge of her sons murderer where as the ‘Long Trail’ talks about a women who has nine children and her rebellion against her way of life.

    A Vendetta is set in a small house on the

‘ ramparts of Bonifacio, Built on a spur of the mountain and in places overhanging the sea’

It is a small Italian town with fishing boats and white hillsides. The story is a bout a small elderly women

 ‘who is near her end’

She is old ,week and fragile. She lives her life for her son and totally depends on him. After the murder of her son she swears to herself, her son, and God that she would get her revenge. Her dog Semillante who stays with her after her sons death barked and howled at the foot of her masters bed.

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‘All day long she sat at her window gazing at the opposite coast and thinking of her revenge, but what was she to do with no one to help her’

One night when semillante began to whine the widow had the inspiration to get her revenge on her sons killers. She then went to church and begged God to aid and support her. She then went home and started the process of getting her revenge. As her dog whined for food she gave it nothing but water for a couple of days. She then brought old clothes and dressed up ...

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