The Necklace | Literary Qualities
In a few words, Maupassant could portray a figure, in a few pages he could describe a fate. Some of his stories in translation fired the imagination of short story authors around the world.
Maupassant's name has become coupled with the "trick ending" in the short story tradition (his admirer O. Henry took this technique to extreme lengths). It is not fair to associate Maupassant exclusively with the "trick ending," however, as he rarely employed it. This link is probably due to the frequency with which his story "The Necklace" has been anthologized. It is likely that "The...
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