The Jewelery

This story by Maupassant takes a much more laid back approach towards its diction than The Cask of Amontillado. The irony is clearly evident when the reader (and main character) finds out that the wife's jewelery is not false jewelery. In selling this jewelery, the man decides to throw away the sacredness of his and her beloved wife's relationship for the riches that the jewelery will sell for. This choice comes at a larger price, as karma shows in the story that he remarries to a frustrating woman and looses all the happiness that the money promised to give him. the theme in this story seems to be much more pronounced than it The Cask of Amontillado as well.