The Jewelry
- What parts of “The Jewelry” correspond to the five traditional phases of plot :
- Exposition: When M. Lantin and his wife come into story.
- Rising action: M. Lantin falling deeply in love with his wife, then her sudden death.
- Turning point or climax: When he discovers his fortune that he didn’t know he had.
- Falling action: When he quits his job and starts a new life.
- Conclusion: When he re-marries, and his life was miserable.
- Once the secret of Madame Lantin’s jewelry is revealed, what details from earlier in the story take on a different significance?
After Madame Lantin’s death the fact that her mother basically put her out there in society for all of these men. Making it look like prostitution. Also, how she flaunted her “false” jewelry, and her going to the theatre by herself.
- How and why might the story’s end-especially its last paragraph-defy expectations? How does it once again change your interpretation of earlier events and of Lantin’s first marriage?
Well I didn’t expect that her jewelry to be actually real, I just seen it as her thinking it made up for the less material things that she claimed she didn’t have. Or in other words made her feel better not being a wealthy. Latin wasn’t going to depart with her jewels until he learned the value of it all. Which made him greedy, and then he choose to make profit from all her jewels. Clearly the only reason he moved on so quickly into a new marriage was that now he had money, I guess it made him happy.
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We had a lot of the same ideas on our opinion. Great job.
Good answer. I did not expect the jewelry to be real either.
We have some of the same opinions on the answers. I didn’t really expect the jewelry to be real either.
We have some of the same opinions because why else would she just start going to the theatre by herself? It doesnt take a genius,
We have a lot of the same ideas. I also like how you answer the questions.
I liked your layout of the questions. They were simple and easy to read.
Nicely organized with good answers.
I thought the mother became significant too, I think she pushed her daughter into doing things just so she could have things that the mother never did, which is what sometimes happens even in today’s time.
You pointed out some interesting things. Well done.