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If you had to write a response to the narrators generalizations about women in paragraph 2, what would you write?

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What did you learn about Madame Loisel in the first 6 paragraphs?

2007-02-25 05:08:24 · 4 answers · asked by Ashley C 1 in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

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Maupassant treats his female characters like children who need to be taught hard lessons about life. The wife in the necklace is a useless bit of frippary until she screws her own life up by not being honest about the lost necklace.

2007-02-25 11:59:36 · answer #1 · answered by nigeledcat 2 · 0 0

Henri-Rene-Albert Guy de Maupassant was born on August 5, 1850, near Tourville-sur-Arques in Normandy, France, where he spent most of his early life.

The oldest child of wealthy parents who eventually separated, Maupassant was not allowed to attend school until he was thirteen years old. Before then, the local parish priest acted as his tutor.

After being expelled from a Catholic seminary school, Maupassant finished his schooling at a Rouen boarding school before studying law at the University of Paris. His studies were soon interrupted by the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, and Maupassant became a soldier in Normandy. After the war, Maupassant did not return to the university and instead entered the civil service, working as a clerk in the Naval and Education Ministries.

Resigning from the Ministry of Education in 1880, Maupassant became a full-time writer. He began by imitating the style of Gustave Flaubert, a prominent French novelist who had been a close friend of Maupas.....

hope this helped you learn about his life = P =D

2007-02-25 13:16:57 · answer #2 · answered by emo_chicky! 2 · 0 0

Sounds like homework there . . .

2007-02-25 13:12:53 · answer #3 · answered by Beau D. Satva 5 · 1 0

lol..ur trying to use yahoo answers to do ur homework...shame on u..lol

2007-02-25 13:33:39 · answer #4 · answered by sk8r_princess 3 · 1 0

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