Explain the duchess and the jweller as a modern short story
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The Duchess and the Jeweller" (1938) is a short story by Virginia Woolf. Woolf, being an advocate of addressing the "stream of consciousness," shows the thoughts and actions of a greedy jeweller; Woolf makes a thematic point that corrupt people do corrupt actions for purely selfish motives (and often without regret).
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Explanation:
The two main characters of the story are the jeweler, Oliver Bacon, and the Duchess. Woolf portrays the Duchess as careless individual who is used to the extravagancies which her money and title afford her. She is both pampered and self-absorbed, though when the reader meets her in the story, the Duchess has fallen on somewhat hard times. The fact that she requires even more money for her decadence places her in the path of the jeweler, Oliver.
Oliver Bacon is manipulative, like the Duchess. His striving, however, stems from his rise from nothing to a place of status, albeit a place nowhere near the Duchess’, at least not yet. Though he has amassed treasures as a jeweler, and has risen based on his shrewdness, Oliver is depicted as an unsatisfied individual. He wants more and more, regardless of the price. As such, though he is a seeming opposite of the Duchess, the two share similar traits as far as materialism and dubious ethics are concerned