Notes on "Desiree's Baby"
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Richard leaves 3 Short Stories We have been studying three short stories that all relate to adult relationships dependent upon different class and cultures. "The necklace" by Guy de Mauspassant, "Story of an hour" by Kate Chopin and finally "Desiree's Baby" also by Kate Chopin. In this essay I will have to compare and contrast each husband and wife relationship from each story. In "The necklace" Madam Loisel shows the quality of her character during the whole of the third, fourth and fifth paragraph as they are about her false desires and dreams. I figured this because her necklace isn't made up of real diamond so this symbolizes that she's living unsatisfied with dreams also not being real. So far I can see their relationship hasn't got off to a good start considering she expects so much more luxuries but her husband she has settled for cant afford it. This is proven when her husband came home with an invitation to a party still she was not satisfied. Her constant selfishness makes her wish she were of higher class because she was pretty but born into poor working class family. Due to her constant dissatisfactions class becomes very important to Madam Loisel, but means nothing to her husband. She looks upon her life as dull and unattractive which is a big downfall in her relationship because she's not happy. Could she have been in the wrong place at the wrong time
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Pre nineteenth century short stories - Compare `The Woman's Rose', `The Story of an Hour' and `The Necklace'.
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