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A lesson in humility
From: New Straits Times
Date: 20001010
Author:Sunny Tan Siew Bek
Sunny Tan Siew Bek
New Straits Times
10-10-2000
A lesson in humility
Byline: Sunny Tan Siew Bek
Edition: Life and Times; 2*
Section: Education
Column: On the text
THE Necklace by Guy de Maupassant is an ingenious and provocative piece of narrative that invites interaction on many levels. Firstly, it is a story about class. It functions as a critique of the petit bourgeoisie - the lower middle classes - of 19th-century France as represented by Mathilde who aspires to the lifestyle of the upper classes and aristocrats, and symbolised by the occupation of her husband, a clerk.
Secondly, the ugly ...
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