Who was suspicious? In uncomfortable bed story
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n Uncomfortable Bed
Have you ever been in a situation where you had the feeling that something bad was going to happen? Maybe it was a bad report card that you knew you'd be in trouble for when you got home. Perhaps you had a minor fender bender in your spouse's car and were just waiting for them to discover the dent. Whatever it was, as the old saying goes, you were waiting for the other shoe to drop.
''Waiting for the other shoe to drop'' means you're anticipating something - usually something bad - happening. Much like the narrator of our story, ''An Uncomfortable Bed,'' by Guy de Maupassant, you're prepared for the worst. Our narrator, however, prepares for the worst ... and nothing happens! Nothing except his own suspicions that get the best of him.
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Characters & Setting
When the story opens in a chateau in Picardy, France, we're introduced to a group of friends who have gotten together for hunting season. The narrator provides us with one critical detail about these friends: these guys are jokesters who like to play practical jokes on each other and everyone else. This is a fact that the narrator doesn't object to because he tells us, ''My friends were fond of practical joking, as all my friends are. I do not care to know any other sort of people.''
Plot & Synopsis
Upon the narrator's arrival at the chateau, we discover that he is immediately distrustful of his friends' welcome. The pack of friends engage in some hunting, but all the while, the narrator is waiting for the other shoe to drop: ''Look out, old ferret! They have something in preparation for you,'' he says.
Dinnertime arrives and, still, the narrator is suspicious. His friends' mirth (or amusement) is too great, the narrator concludes. Surely the friends are up to something. Yet, the evening continues without incident. But that doesn't stop the narrator from examining every word uttered during their time together. He's even suspicious of the servants in the residence.