The Gift of the Maji
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- I have no money!!!
- “ ‘I brought you another one just like it. And for the last ten years we have been paying for it. You realise it wasn't easy for us; we had no money. . . . Well, it's paid for at last, and I'm glad indeed.’ Madame Forestier, deeply moved, took her two hands. ‘Oh, my poor Mathilde! But mine was imitation. It was worth at the very most five hundred francs!’ ” (de Maupassant 9).
- Honesty can prevent further escalation of problems.
- Why did you spend so much on replacing a mere imitation?
- I am not doing the right thing. How could such a trustworthy person like myself commit an awful misdeed?
- “She did not, as her friend had feared, open the case. If she had noticed the substitution, what would she have thought? What would she have said? Would she not have taken her for a thief?” (de Maupassant 7).
- The act of lying can cause a guilty consciousness.
- "She came to know the heavy work of the house, the hateful duties of the kitchen. She washed the plates, wearing out her pink nails on the coarse pottery and the bottoms of pans. She washed the dirty linen, the shirts and dishcloths, and hung them out to dry on a string" (de Maupassant 5).
- Ungratefulness will lead people to never understand true hard work.
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