After reading the story, "The Jewelry," I feel it could be categorized as realistic fiction. I believe that to some degree this stroy could be true in the fact that people do have affairs. I do not think that there re many stories as these that occur in the lives of other people.
In the story, 'The Jewelry', the author undercuts the story from the very beginning. He begins the story with, "Having met the girl one evening, at the house of teh office-superintendent, M. Lantin became enveloped in love as in a net." Upon reading that line, I as the reader, was led to believe that this story was going to involve how in love he was with her. However, upon reading