Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories
Why is the story entitled “Useless Beauty”?
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In the story, Maupassant used the word beauty for Comtesse de Mascaret, symbolically for all women. When women are not able to fulfill male expectations, their beauty becomes usesless.
