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The Necklace: Devastation Greed
Kareem Davy
EN-102
Mrs. Christine Redman- Waldeyer
31 October 2015
The Devastation Greed can Brings in someone Life Greed is a bottomless pit which drains the person in an endless effort to satisfy their needs without ever reaching fulfillment. Various authors such as GUY DE MAUPASSANT (use lower case as needed), James Joyce, Isabel Allende and John Steinbeck believe that greed creates a strong and intense selfish desire within you in which you will never be able to achieve satisfaction. In “The Necklace,” GUY DE MAUPASSANT character loisel Mathilde who is a very greedy and selfish woman, believes that she was born for every delicacy and luxury there is and feels that she was made for all beautiful jewels and clothes, which cause her emotional
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While he is rich from burying is gold, he has never shares none of it with his wife or children who sometimes have to rely on the kindness of others for food, clothes, and schooling. In addition, Vargas tends to borrows money and never pay it back Because Vargas refuses to pay for anything or dip into his buried gold. Vargas greatly differs from Mathilde and Mrs. Kearney because while their greed and desire to be wealthy and have all the luxuries in life and to be respected by everyone men and women. Vargas desire was a little more straight forward and a lot more cruel from theirs because he keep all his riches to himself while his wife and kids are starving and tend to relies on other people to give them the necessities they want. Even though GUY DE MAUPASSANT and James Joyce characters are very different from Isabel Allende character they all similarly show little something in common and that is they all have selfish desire and wanted to be praise and be respected for their appearance. Furthermore, they also shows something else in common and that they have gotten married not for love, but for necessities, which shows just how little they think of marriage and how marriage is just an mean to an end to

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