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| What year was the author, Guy de Maupassant born? | 1850 |
| What country was the author born? | France |
| Who did Guy de maupassant grow up with even though he was wealthy? | the children of peasants and sailors |
| Who influenced the author when he was young? | Flaubert |
| What war did the author serve in? | Franco Prussian War(1869-1871) |
| After returning from war, how was the author employed? | government clerk(spending his free time writing) |
| How did the author live? | extravagantly |
| Who worked for the rich? | farmers and servants |
| How was society defined in Paris of the 1800's? | class structure |
| What is point of view? | relationship of the narrator to the story |
| incessantly | endlessly;constantly |
| disconsolate | so unhappy that nothing can comfort |
| aghast | filled with fear, horror, or amazement |
| gamut | the entire range or series of something |
| dowry | money or property that a woman brings to her husband |
| pauper | a very poor person |
