(855) 4-ESSAYS

Type a new keyword(s) and press Enter to search

The Jewelry, What About it?

            The title of the story is The Jewelry, but one reading the story would wonder how it fits. Guy De Maupassant, the author, waits until the middle of the story to add anything in about jewelry. He holds off on this important piece of the story for a reason. Things are not always what they seem. There are many ways that me shows this throughout the story The Jewelry. .
             While reading the story or just the first page one would wonder why the story is titled in such a way. The author makes to references to jewelry in any way. He tells how two people meet. As the story unfolds more, one would think that this story is going to be about two people's love for one another. Jewelry is finally mentioned but as fake. The husband knows that the jewelry that his wife wears is fake. He knows there is no way either one of them could afford real jewelry, but his wife wears it like it is one of a kind. The wife even points out about how real the fake jewelry looks. The husband couldn't understand why she spends so much time looking at the jewelry thinking (" she experienced some secret and mysterious sensations of pleasure in her comtemplation-) .
             Then to make things not seem what they are even more, the wife dies from pneumonia. This hurt him badly. When he saw how his salary couldn't cover his wants, he wondered how they could afford some of the items his wife would bring home. When he started to become short of money, he decides to take a piece of jewelry and sell it. He finally gets past his guilt about deciding to sell the piece and goes to the jeweler to find out that the piece is worth more money than he figured a fake piece is worth. After this he realizes that all of the jewelry she had must have been real. He begins to wonder how she came across the expensive jewels and figures they were presents. He realized that his wife must not have been faithful to him and she had been with someone.


Essays Related to The Jewelry, What About it?

1. The Jewelry by Guy De Maupassant

... 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 ... alive. Then, in desperation for money, he decides to consider selling her false jewelry. In the end, M. Lantin learns that the false jewelry was not false but real jewelr...

  • Word Count: 451
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: High School

2. The jewels

... which always hovered about her lips seemed to be a reflection of her heart". (1034) She comes off gentle and caring but slowly turns evil and conniving. Her passion for this fake jewelry was unusually and absurd. The imitation jewelry was made out of paste but is also made to look nice. Fake jewels have a beautiful reflection, but a reflection isn't what is on the inside. Monsieur Lantin ... her person was so great that six years after their first meeting he loved her even more than in the early days". (1034-1035) She tricked him, she made him complexly comfortable so he wouldn't suspec...

  • Word Count: 559
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: High School

3. Seth of the Lion People and Early Man

Seth of the Lion People is a novel about Early Man. I believe Seth is a member of the Cro-Magnon group because of their uses and creations of tools, fire, burial rites, and artwork. Cro-Magnon man had very similar uses of these items, which the following research information will show, supporting my idea. Cro-Magnon man, ... using a wider variety of raw materials such as bone and antler, and containing new inventions for making clothing, engraving, and sculpting. Most of the tools were used for butchering animals, preparing food, scraping animal hides, and carving wood. They also made tools, ...

  • Word Count: 634
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

4. The Necklace

... 6). She lives for her unrealistic dreams and these increase her frustration and unhappiness. Throughout the story Mathilde thinks only about herself. She acts selfish and doesn't think about anyone but herself. Her and her husband received an invitation to go to a dinner and she threw it on the table. She says, "What do you expect me to do with this?" Looking at her husband angrily, she ... a shotgun and now he has to buy her a dress. He says, "All right, you've got four hundred francs, but make it a pretty dress" (page 7). He buys her a dress and then she complains that she doesn't hav...

  • Word Count: 766
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

5. The Life of Josephine Baker

... write about Baker because through all the obstacles she faced, not once did she ever give up her dream of being a performer. Being an African American in the 1900's was not an easy thing to do. Racism was very common in the lifetime of Josephine. Baker did not start off living the life everyone dreams of but worked her way to the top regardless of what was ... never giving up, she was a very successful performer in Europe. At one point she was the most photographed women in the world and earned more than any entertainer in the world. She spent most of her money on clothes, jewelry, and ...

  • Word Count: 702
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

6. The Victorian Hairwork Age

... . Relics usually appeal to one particular set of people, while jewelry appeals to more people than just religious ones. The way people feel about relics is similar to how people feel about hairwork jewelry, very sentimental. If one could have had a lock of Jesuss hair and fashioned it into a piece of hairwork jewelry, the piece would draw thousands upon thousands to that relic site. Sentimentality and ... along with other gifts in August of 1855 on the Queen's visit to Versailles. The hairwork pieces were worn by young and old alike. It also did not matter what societal class one belong...

  • Word Count: 3367
  • Approx Pages: 13
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

7. The Navajo Indians

... , they kept their language. They had new clothing for a hotter climate. The women wore dresses, moccasins, a belt and jewelry. Men wore a shirt, moccasins and jewelry. They built new homes called hogans. These were made from logs, tree bark and mud. The door opens to the east to welcome the sun. They were a single room about 20 to 30 feet in diameter. Homes were built close to relatives ... aunts, uncles and grandparents. Extended families worked together in agriculture and to build new homes. All members of the family had their roles to play. The children watched the elder people of the...

  • Word Count: 857
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

8. The Jewelry The Causes of Adultery

... of his wife's jewelry. M. Lantin took the jewelry to a jewelry-store, and found out that the jewelry was in fact real M. Lantin didn't want to believe it, so he took the jewelry to another jewelry-store and there the jeweler confirmed the jewelry was real and was bought there. M Lantin concluded that his wife had lied to him about the jewelry and assumed that she committed adultery with the person who bought her the jewelry. Based on ... that she mostly desired which were the jewelry and the theater. "Now this passion for the theater at last evoked in her the desire of dress" (Maupassan...

  • Word Count: 1560
  • Approx Pages: 6
  • Grade Level: High School

9. Mathilde Loisel in The Necklace

... impressed those who were invited. Her husband afforded to buy her a dress but not jewelry, so she had to borrow from a rich friend. She found the one that suit her the best which is the most expensive one-a diamond necklace. After the ball night, she lost the necklace and she secretly replaced it with a new one which cause her and her husband 10 years to pay off ... unhappy as if "she had fallen from her proper station" (345). Moreover, the idea of her putting material possessions over anything else is showed more clearly when the husband got the invitation to the ball and Mathilde star...

  • Word Count: 1134
  • Approx Pages: 5
  • Grade Level: High School

Got a writing question? Ask our professional writer!
Submit My Question