(Solved) The False Gems - Essay

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The false Gems
Introduction
The story leaves one with more questions than the answers which allow the reader in
formulating the ideas of their own from the meaning of the story. In the Jewelry, by Guy De
Maupassant, there are various key points in the story which leave one to wonder on what exactly
was the overall intent of the writer (Sem-VI General 3). In the story it is as though it ended
abruptly, in the sense that is should have been more to it. In the essay, it would provide an
overview of the story from my point of view and fill the blanks with solution to the riddle.
In the story as the readers we are introduced to Monsieur Lantin who had become a lucky
young man who marries a young girl at a reception who was the daughter of the provincial tax
collector, who died several years ago. Monsieur Lantin had modest life with modest salary he
earned from the ministry of interior (Sem-VI General 13). He was utterly happy when he married
her wife. In the story it highlights that after years of marriage Monsieur Lantin loved her more
than he did than the first time he met her. Nonetheless, there are two faults he found with the
wife.
Her first fault he highlighted was that of her love for theater (Gale 65). The story unfolds as it

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has declared that she always had her loges cured for the performances. Loge is a kind of private
box office which is in the theater (Rick 45). On that part it struck with the odds how
Monsieur Lantin salary could afford to have her wife go to private box office seats to see these
performances. This seems to be ideal for a wealthy person as I imagine those seats are very
expensive. At this point of the story, there are uncertainties which have arisen at the odds that
something was going on with her wife.
To raise suspicions to a higher notch, Mr. Latin begs her to go without him, since he does
not like the shows. I wondered this could perhaps make her resentful that he did not accompany
her to her obsession. Another fault he disliked was her craze with the false jewelry (Rick 55).
She was very infatuated with the jewelry (Sem-VI General 43). She often stared the false
diamonds as though they were real. There was irony represented in the story since the husband
thought that the jewelry we fake and since she knew the truth she often would say, "Look! are
they not lovely? One would swear they were real." And he would say "You have
bohemian tastes, my dear." (Sem-VI General 4)
Could she have known something that the husband was not aware? My curiosity had
grown at this point. There was abrupt and sudden twist in the story plot, her wife comes down
with cough and latter dies from inflammation in the lungs. From this perspective the story focus
is clearly not on the wife rather on M. Lantin.
The writer from the beginning intended to put Lantin at the core center of attention of the
plot. The mourning of the wife was expressed mostly within the story especially what he went
while grieving her. He falls into debt later and completely broke with no pay (Italo23). He is then