a dismal picture of what women are like. When they are young and beautiful, they are sexually attractive, but they are not particularly intelligent or deep. However, the men in these stories go to extreme limits, because of their attraction to the women. In the end, the men in these short stories are the fools because they are slaves to their desires, which is what Sammy realizes he is going to be doing the rest of his life, and what Mathilde’s husband did for ten years after she lost the necklace. ...
