I have looked this question up. It is about the short story "The Diamond Necklace," by Guy de Maupassant.
Answer and Explanation:
The main character, Madame Loisel, is a woman who dreams of being rich. She resents her social status, especially the lack of money to buy the fancy things she has a taste for. One day, as she and her husband are invited to a ball, Madame Loisel borrows a necklace from a friend whose social status is superior to her own. She loses the necklace and, to replace it, spends ten years of her life working herself old and "ugly" (to her standards).
<u>At the end, the ironic twist lies in the fact the the necklace she lost was a fake one.</u> There is a lot to be interpreted here, especially the fact that Madame Loisel never even thought to ask if the necklace she was borrowing was made of real diamonds or not. She just assumed it was because that is how she views rich people. She thinks of them as having money to spare, so they would have no reason to buy a fake necklace.
<u>The ending also reveals Maupassant's own attitude toward status. Unlike his character, he is not fooled by a person's appearance of wealth. It is all appearance after all, a façade. There is no reason to marvel at the life of a wealthy person. They are not happier or better than anyone else.</u>
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Answer:
A character vs self
The exposition
Explanation:
The options you were given are the following:
- A character vs self
- A character vs nature
- A character vs society
- The exposition
- The climax
- The falling action
- The resolution
<em>The Tell-Tale Heart</em> is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. It's told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator who is trying to convince the readers of his sanity while describing a murder he committed. He murdered an old man with a pale blue <em>vulture-eye. </em>After the murder, he begins hearing a thumping sound, which he interprets as the dead man's beating heart. The sound terrifies him and leads him to confess what he has done to officers.
The given passage is the beginning of the story, which means that it's the exposition. It introduces the characters and the conflict. In literature, there are two basic types of conflict:
- Internal conflict - a character struggles with their own opposing desires or beliefs.
- External conflict - a character struggles with an outside force, such as another character, nature, or society.
Here, we have an example of an inner (character vs self) conflict. The narrator tells us that the old man never wronged him and that he even loved him. However, he feels the need to murder him, as he explains it, because of his pale blue eye of a vulture, and decides to do that.
