“The Odyssey of a Prostitute” Guy de Maupassant
Thesis: Hearing the stories of the miserable drop into misery of prostitution of girls, de Maupassant wrote this short story
- Prostitutes were running away from the police
- De Maupassant allowed one to stay with him to avoid the police and she explained her situation
- Her employer tried to take advantage of her
- She fled once her employer, M. Lerable, tried to kill M. Dutan, who was with her one night
- She ran away and then the police accompanied her to
- She was scared that they would imprison her; however, she went to jail after being awoken by cops in a meadow until they found out who and what she was
- They pronounced her not guilty of the murder
- Then after going to the judge for help and receiving five francs to live on, she thought the “young men are all right for a bit of fun”
- She then believed that older, more wealthy men could give more money
- She ended up in
- She walks away from de Maupassant after finishing the story
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