A Study Guide for Guy de Maupassant's "The Jewels"
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A Study Guide for Guy de Maupassant's "The Jewels" - Gale
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The Jewels
Guy De Maupassant
1880
Introduction
The Jewels,
first published in 1880, is one of several hundred stories penned by Guy de Maupassant during his meteoric ten-year writing career. In theme and style it is similar to many of his other stories Through the dispassionate eye of an invisible narrator, it examines the hypocrisy of humankind and implies that the roots of this hypocrisy lie in the capitalist system.
The Jewels
recounts the story of Monsieur Lantin, an unimportant clerk in a government ministry similar to the ones in which Maupassant himself toiled for many miserable years. Through various plot twists it is revealed that Monsieur Lantin's wife had extensively cheated on him during their marriage, receiving from her lovers many pieces of expensive jewelry, which Monsieur Lantin had assumed were fake. After her death he cashes them in for an enormous amount of money and drowns whatever grief he may have felt at her death in a new life of conspicuous consumption and ostentatious displays of his newfound wealth.
Like all of Maupassant's best writing, The Jewels
is a short and direct piece. The characters pursue their needs in the blind and desperate fashion of animals and learn nothing from their disappointments and failures. Through such characters, Maupassant espouses a bleak view of human nature—it seems that he holds out no hope for people changing unless the conditions that create their selfish desperation change first.
Author Biography
Guy de Maupassant was born on August 5, 1850, into a wealthy and artistic family with pretensions of greater grandeur: just before his birth, his parents rented the eighteenth-century Chateau de Miromesnil near Dieppe, France, so he could be born into luxury. However, baby Guy came early and so was actually born at the modest home of his grandmother thirty miles away. Maupassant was christened at Miromesnil, though, and his mother, Laure, maintained the fiction throughout her life that her son had been born at the chateau. Such social pretension, and its tragic futility, would become Maupassant's main subject matter as a writer.
After years of unhappiness, Maupassant's parents separated when he was eleven, a situation that caused the first of many