My Wife

Title of the short story : My Wife
Author : Guy de Maupassant
Number of pages : 8

 The Facts
The main character of this story is a man named Pierre Letoile. In a
dinner party, he and his friends was talking about their wife and how
they found them. Then, out of nowhere, the conversation turned into a
story of how Pierre ended up wit his pretty and charming wife.

Actually, at first Pierre did not want his wife at all. He was
attending his cousin party, when he was, unwillingly, be paired up
with Mademoiselle Dumoulin, a daughter of a retired colonel. He did no
like the lady. She was boring, love to drag him everywhere, and make
him dance willy-nilly. Therefore, when the party had ended, he went
outside, toward a countryfolks party, where he danced, played, and
drank until he nearly passed out.

When he realized that it was already too late in the night, he went
home to his cousin’s house, and struggled, for he was heavily drunk,
to find his room. After some difficulties, he finally found his room.
Then, he just hopped into the bed. In the morning, he awakened by the
sound of someone screaming. Blearily, he opened his eyes and saw
someone running out of the room. Not too long, someone bang in his
door. It was his cousin. He asked him what he had done in the room of
Mademoiselle Dumoulin.

Actually, the room he had slept in was not his room but the
Mademoiselle’s. with all that commotion, the colonel found out about
that and demanded that Pierre married his daughter. With a heavy
heart, he agreed to marry because he did not want to leave the lady
with a ruined reputation. At their first night, he found the lady
crying in their room because she thought that he did not want her and
felt that she was just a burden. Seeing that, Pierre realized that was
quite fortunate to have a pretty and kind woman as his wife.

 Personal Response

It is a nice story with good moral value that we can learn, like
‘drink alcohol is never a good thing’.