Characters estranged from their surroundings
Stories that seem to have nothing in common can be misleading. Ivan Dorin's short story "Outside Edges" and Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace", have settings roughly 200 years apart, take place on opposite sides of the world, and still depict many similarities. These stories manifest themes of how one can become estranged from the outside world and their surroundings. Stubbornness, obsession and ambition are themes revealed by the authors through use of devices such as character, setting, and plot which will all be explored. As different as they are, Mme. Loisel, the main character in "The Necklace", and David, the main character in "Outside Edges", possess many of the same qualities, but it is these qualities that will lead to their alienation from everything else. The main characters of these stories are very contrasted. Mme. Loisel is a married woman who makes little money and struggles to get by, while David is a young boy who we do see grow throughout the story but starts off as only a little child. The stubbornness of these characters is revealed through certain events in the stories. When Mme. Loisel realized that she has no jewelry to wear to the ball and decides she cannot attend without any, her husband sugge
Loisel rejects his idea without considering it. Although the settings are different, they are both crucial to the stories in a similar way. if he'd like me to go to the map office with him and pick up a couple of maps," (Dorin, page 51). He is determined to make his way across Canada, marking on every map he owns. It's very stylish at this time of the year," (Maupassant, page 4). David becomes obsessed with collecting maps and marking his path across Canada that he slowly becomes oblivious to anything that does not have to do with these things. Loisel is living in the 1800s when class and status are very significant to everyday life. These themes also show how people can be affected by the same thing in a different way, and that they should come to grips with reality before it's too late. Loisel's ambition is to become someone more important, as well as it is to pay off the cost of the necklace that she lost, "She came to know what heavy housework meant and the odious cares of the kitchen.
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