The Necklace written by Guy de Maupassant and Extracts From Adam’s Diary by Mark Twain are both short stories about the relationship of a man and woman. The story tells how actions and lack of communication changed both couple’s lives forever in a very negative way, forcing each to leave their comfortable home for a place of considerable hardship.
The Necklace treats the events in a very serious way and is written in third person. It is a story about the Loisels. Mathide Loisel is a very pretty woman who thinks that she should be living a far grander life than she is living. She and her husband are comfortable. They have a maid to help with the housework, but Mathide is not satisfied. She is focused on the wealth that she does not have and this causes her constant pain and turmoil.
Likewise, Adam chronicles in Extracts from Adam’s Diary that he is unhappy that Eve has come into his life and seems to be taking over. He is not satisfied with anything that she does and constantly complains as she starts naming all the animals and places in their home. However, his diary is more of a comical monologue written in first person showing the differences between men and women.
Mathide in The Necklace liked beautiful things and thought she was entitled to them. She…show more content… . . .all of a sudden they broke into a tempest of frightful noises, and in one moment the plain was a frantic commotion and every beast was destroying its neighbor. I knew what it meant-Eve had eaten that fruit, and death was come into the world. . . . I found this place, outside the Park, and was fairly comfortable for a few days, but she has found me out. Found me out, and has named the place Tonawanda-says it LOOKS like that. In fact I was not sorry she came, for there are but meager pickings here, and she brought some of those apples. I was obliged to eat them, I was so hungry. It was against my principles, but I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed. . . . .”
