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There are many downfalls that may happen when one has the desire to be wealthy. This concept is shown in Guy de Maupassant's "The Jewels." Maupassant shows the consequences of this desire by developing characters with lives affected by wealth, by using symbolis ....

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.... words and actions. "'What can I do? It is my vice. I know you are right, but I can't change my character. I just adore jewels.'"(8) We know that she gives in to her vice and has what can be inferred to be as an affair. She deceives her husband in order to satisfy her desires. The wife is also dynamic because she always gives in to her love of wealth; she never changes. The wife's death is implied to be caused by her desire to obtain wealth. "When she had been to the opera one evening in the winter, she returned home shivering with cold. The next day she began to cough. Eight days later she died from an inflammation of the lungs."(9) ....