Comparing the Grandmother in The Necklace and A Good Man...

The Grandmother in The Necklace and A Good Man is Hard to Findnbsp;nbsp; The main characters Mrs. Loisel in The Necklace and the grandmother in A Good Man is Hard to Find are very similar because both these characters refused to admit to a mistake that they had made. They both had the same motivation prior to the mistake and they also had the same reason as to why they wanted to keep quiet about it. Although Mrs. Lisles and the grandmothers penalties were different, it is still fair to compare the two because either way, dead or alive, both their lives were ruined. Mrs. Loisel and the grandmother are very similar due to the fact that they both had the same motivation prior to their accident. It was a selfish motivation that†¦show more content†¦Instead, both the grandmother and Mrs. Loisel chose to be selfish, and it got them in a whole lot of trouble. Mrs. Loisel and the grandmother are also similar in their reasons for keeping quiet. They were both too embarrassed to say anything when they found out they had made a mistake. Mrs. Loisel was too embarrassed to tell her friend that she had lost the necklace, because she thought so highly of her rich friend. She had a rich friend, a schoolmate at the convent, whom she did not like to visit, she suffered so much when she returned. (66) Because Mrs. Loisel thought so highly of her friend, she was too embarrassed to tell her that the diamond necklace was gone. Instead she chose to keep her secret quiet and work to pay off the loans they got when they purchased a new necklace. If Mrs. Loisel would have swallowed her pride, and told her friend what happened, it would have saved 10 years of her life, and her appearance. The grandmother also kept her secret quiet due to embarrassment. When she realized that the house she was talking about was in Tennessee not Georgia, she was too embarrassed to say anything. The thought was so embarrassing that she turned red in the face and her eyes dilated and her feet jumped up. . .the cat, sprang onto Baileys shoulder. (163) Because the grandmother chose to keep her secret quiet, it cost her family their lives. Bailey got scared, the car wrecked,Show MoreRelatedUnder the Mango Tree by Hugh Aaron4693 Words   |  19 Pagescartons of cigarettes, cans of fruit juice. Repeatedly sweeping past us like zephyrs, each child snatched a bar of sweet chocolate from our extended hands. We were no less boisterous than they, shouting along with them, asking their names, having a good time ourselves, caught up in the infectious joy of their freewheeling abandon. Such was the character of our entry into Lubao time after time. As we walked down the village street, people waved from their houses repeating our names, people we didn’t