life of poverty. A world where any tiny, innocent mistake can ruin your life is certainly a malevolent world, and it is that world that Maupassant cynically tries to show we five in. The Critic is Paul Marx. This story is formed very well it has good structure. it tells about all the people in the story. The people in the story are great people with great bring up and a good background. Basically the story, stated toward the end, is that the one who sparks up and who sparks up and goes out of her way, to stand out will be the most thoughtful person. Indeed, the ladies become even more scornful and "they would have liked to Hi her, or throw her and her drinking cup, her basket, and her provisions out of the coach into the snow of the road below." Nevertheless they do partake of their food and drink. The Prussian officer who lives at the hotel wants Ball of Fat to go to bed with him but she will have nothing to do with an officer of the enemy. When the journey is resumed, the pillars of society cannot allow themselves to be grateful to the prostitute; instead, their scorn is greater than ever. (Marx 65) Arthur Symons: "His appeal is genuine, and his skill, of its kind, incontestable. He attracts, as certain men do, by a warm and blunt plausibility. He is so frank, and seems so broad- and is so skillful, and seems so living. We can now be assured that among the stories of Maupassant there are at least twenty or thirty that will not perish." (Lindquist 9) The Critic is Albert H. Wallace. Guy de Maupassant's literary apprenticeship ended in 1880 with the appearance of 'Boule de suif' ('Ball of Fat'). About eight years Maupassant dedicated himself totally to his work, a tribute to Flaubert's influence, and also possibly because of a premonition of how especially desperate was his own race with time. The great stream of stories, novels, travel accounts, and essays that flowed from his pen in astonishing for its high quality. He has attracted a...
