Cathy Williams
Professor Sheryl Smith
English 212
2 December 2014
"The Necklace" is a short story by Guy De Maupassant, first published on February 17, 1884 in the French newspaper Le Gaulois. Maupassant was a student of the great French author Flaubert, who was a founding figure of "Realism” as a literary genre. Realism meant writing
about real-seeming situations in a realistic way. Maupassant believed that a role of the writer was to entertain, and to make readers think deeply about…
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