Throughout the short story “Two Friends” by Guy de Maupassant, the main characters Monsieur Morissot and Monsieur Sauvage continually make efforts to improve their quality of life. Both are living in Paris, which is under siege and where the food is scarce. The two friends shared a mutual love for fishing, “Simple exchange of words was all that was needed for them to understand each other and confirm their mutual appreciation” (Maupassant 170). The simple realization that such an easy task could bring back such joy sparked an idea in the head of the friends. This idea being that the friends would go fishing in order to bring back the feeling of quality of life that had been present before the war. “And as they did so they were overcome by a delightful sense of joy, the kind of joy you only experience when you resume something you really love after being deprived of it for a long time” (Maupassant 174). Unfortunately this joy was short lived when the risk of crossing the French line had came into clear focus. The two friends had found themselves surrounded by Prussians who thought the worst of their
Throughout the short story “Two Friends” by Guy de Maupassant, the main characters Monsieur Morissot and Monsieur Sauvage continually make efforts to improve their quality of life. Both are living in Paris, which is under siege and where the food is scarce. The two friends shared a mutual love for fishing, “Simple exchange of words was all that was needed for them to understand each other and confirm their mutual appreciation” (Maupassant 170). The simple realization that such an easy task could bring back such joy sparked an idea in the head of the friends. This idea being that the friends would go fishing in order to bring back the feeling of quality of life that had been present before the war. “And as they did so they were overcome by a delightful sense of joy, the kind of joy you only experience when you resume something you really love after being deprived of it for a long time” (Maupassant 174). Unfortunately this joy was short lived when the risk of crossing the French line had came into clear focus. The two friends had found themselves surrounded by Prussians who thought the worst of their