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Comparing Short Stories 'The Necklace And' Soldier's Home
Several prominent short stories include controversial implications in respect to the feminist approach. They can be regarded either sexist or feminist, depending on how authors depict characters and their behaviours. Despite different plot developments in a variety of sexist texts, most of sexist contexts have commonalities found in their characters upon extended analysis: a male takes advantages of the power that a female does not gain, while a female indicates a stereotypical image through very feminine behaviours and characteristics. Likewise, there are two short stories, considered as the sexist towards a female: Maupassant’s “The Necklace” and Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home”. These two short stories are similar to one another in certain aspects;

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