The story "The Star", which was written in 1970's, is trying to say that we need to understand the truth of our fate rather than put on blinders and quit refusing everything else that we don't want to see. In the story "The Necklace" written by Guy De Maupassant the woman worked herself to the bone for ten years trying to pay off the debt used to pay for the necklace she lost at the ball. The woman in this story is a poor pretty woman who thought she deserved a better life than one that she already had. The main character in this story is a woman named Louis, the daughter of simple working class man. Both stories include a sub theme of a hope for a better life, in which all men were created equal and all the ugly injustices in the world would cease to exist. But the cold hard fact is that we humans have this innate sense of optimism, which blocks our thinking for reality, because without it we would have no reason for living.

In the case of the woman in the story "The necklace"......

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Title: Compare And Contrast "The Star" And "The Necklace"
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