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The Lady With The Dog And Possibly The Jewelry Essay

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The Lady with the Dog and Possibly the Jewelry? Two different stories written within sixteen years of each other; could they really be that different? Could they even be so similar? These short stories were written in two different cultural environments. “The Jewelry” was written in 1883 by a man named Guy De Maupassant, who based the story in Paris, France. It tells of a man, his wife, and the wife’s two flaws that actually make the man wealthier. “The Lady with the Dog” was written by Anton Chekhov, who wrote the story in his hometown Moscow, Russia. This author composed a story of a disloyal husband and his adventures with the new foreign woman in town. With those summarizations, it is probably hard to believe that they are actually so similar, really they are. Two different stories that are of such dissimilar content are actually the same. It can be assumed these stories had no influence upon each other. Therefore, environment and the time period is truly of the essence in these short stories. It is brought a couple of times throughout the stories of where they are and how the men feel and act around women. They are both told with such an ironic tone throughout and the protagonists are both men that could not live without women. Both tell a story of how women affect their lives, but do not truly realize how important they are until the women are gone. The men show who they truly think they are early in the stories and slowly, and even painfully, are shown that they are

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