Answer:
Explanation:
Summary:
In “The Piece of String,” the story would be very different if told from
the point of view of the farm hand who actually found the wallet. He
would most likely be shocked and concerned that the old man was taking
such grief for something he did not do. It also would have changed the
end of the story.
This is More Detailed:
Maitre Malandain probably does not truly believe that Maitre Hauchcorne has stolen the wallet, but having "the tendency to hold grudges," he takes advantage of an opportunity to deal misery to his foe.
Just as Saki satirized those of the Edwardian Age in England, Guy de Maupassant mocked the pettiness of the peasantry of Normandy, a province in northwestern France. In the exposition of his story, Maupassant describes the Norman women in the market who stubbornly held to their prices in the market and would only relent when a customer began to walk away. Then, they would shout after him or her, "All right...It's yours."
It is this same obstinate and petty...