CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Guy de Maupassant is regarded as the best French writer of short stories. His 300 stories were written in the naturalist style and often described the life of the lower and middle classes. “Boule de suif” (“Ball of Fat”) is regarded as his best story, while the best known is “La Parure” (“The Necklace”).

Detailed explanation-2: -Naturalism is a literary movement born in the era of Maupassant, which reached its zenith in the late nineteenth century, and whose most prominent figures are writers Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) (who will guide the early literary career of Maupassant) and Emile Zola (1840-1902).

Detailed explanation-3: -Genre. The Necklace is a fictional short story in the genre of Realism. Sub-genres include irony, for its surprise ending, and morality tale, for important lessons it offers the reader.

Detailed explanation-4: -In Guy de Maupassant’s short story ‘’Two Friends, ” Monsieur Morissot and Monsieur Sauvage run into one another during the siege of Paris. Morissot is a watchmaker and Sauvage is a draper, or tailor, and they used to fish together regularly. These two are the main characters, or participants in the story.