![]() I was a penniless clerk at the time now I’m a successful man who can throw away huge sums to gratify a passing whim. Mouche starts off with the elderly narrator reminiscing about a carefree period in his early twenties when he was skint and compares it with his current life: Unlike some of Maupassant’s stories that have surprise endings I don’t think that knowing the ending of this one particularly harms the reader’s enjoyment as it easily stands up to repeated readings. Maupassant loved boats and the sea and as a result, a lot of his stories take place within this environment.īe warned that I reveal the whole plot in what follows. I have particularly been reading a lot of Maupassant’s stories and one of my favourites is called Mouche, which appears at the end of the Penguin edition called Selected Short Stories and has the subtitle Reminiscences of a Rowing Man. ![]() ![]() I’ve been in a real short story mood lately and have enjoyed re-reading some favourite stories as well as discovering new ones. ![]()
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