Guy de Maupassant（18501893）， one of the greatest critical realist writers in the world, is considered as one of three kings of world short story。 Maupassant created six novels and 359 medium forms during his brief lifetime, engendering a momentous effect on the later literature. And it’s his maiden work, Suet Ball that won him world-wide prestige.
In1870, with the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, the real-based story Suet Ball happened. The heroine of the story is a humble harlot called Suet Ball. With a group of French residents of Rouen, recently occupied by the Prussian army, the 11 travelers are on their way fleeing to Le Havre in a stagecoach. In virtue of the appalling weather, the stagecoach moves rather slowly and has just covered a few miles by midday. Initially, those occupants snub Suet Ball whereas their attitudes alters with the emergence of a basket filled with scrumptious food and she caters for those hungry travelers selflessly.
The carriage doesn’t stop until they blunders into a Prussian-held territory called T?tes. A Prussian officer detains the coach with no definite reasons. In the next two days, the occupants wait with barely concealed impatience and eventually Suet Ball tells that they will be detained perpetually unless she approves of sleeping with the officer. Out of her patriotism, Suet Ball gives him a point-blank refusal. As it should be, those travelers behave furiously to the officer"s arrogance while during the next two days, they exemplify logic and morality in diverse ways to convince Suet Ball of its validity. What a kind-hearted girl! Finally Suet Ball gives up and sacrifices her body for everyone’s freedom.
The next morning, they are permitted to leave. But those "representatives of Virtue" totally neglect Suet Ball, casting scathing sights on the poor young woman while even disdaining talking to her and rejecting sharing their food with her in the same way that she did at the beginning. From their perspectives, Suet Ball turns out to be no more utilizable and should be condemned for her ashamed conduct. As the stagecoach travels deeper into the night, she seethes with rage against those hypocrites, and ultimately weeps for her lost dignity.
In this story, Maupassant highlighted the intense comparison between Suet Ball and the so-called nobles. Rapacity, hypocrisy, sexuality and nobility intertwine in the spotlight，eulogizing the underclass’ patriotism and lampooning the sham of the aristocracy. Maupassant portrays the inhabitants of the stagecoach in varied disparaging ways. The most luminous character belongs to the two nuns. At first they are portrayed as tranquil and subservient to Lord and demonstrate their fiery patriotic desire to dedicate to their motherland rather than a sordid intention like the other passengers: the nuns profess to haste to a military hospital to heal the wounded French soldiers, hence presenting the argument towards instigating Suet Ball to abandon her resistance. How absurd it is! Nuns are supposed to take strait vows and treat others benevolently. They fill Suet Ball"s head with arguments, arguing that it is not morally wrong to sleep with the officer in order to let the travelers leave, and that the longer she waits, the more young French soldiers will die as the nuns are not there to look after them. Superficially, they claim that it is for the good of the country but indeed they’re just taking advantage of her. Suet Ball"s resistance to the officer"s sexual advances again indicate her patriotism. Cruel wars have stripped all the external stuffs. In contrast to all of these is Suet Ball, a prostitute, revealed to be the most fiercely patriotic, virtuous, and morally admirable character, which Maupassant contrasts with the hypocrisy and snobbery of the others.
It is arguably Maupassant’s most famous short story. The carriage constitutes a microcosm of French society as a whole. And the narrative techniques of this story are rather sophisticated and carefully conceived. On balance, a real noble person like Suet Ball can’t be judged by the appearance or the occupation, his/ her moral quality will glitter when confronting the real ordeal. Consequently, I deem that Suet Ball is worth reading lingeringly, savoring every word.
这个假期，我读了一本叫《羊脂球》的书，里面是由很多篇短篇小说组成的，其中我印象最深刻的，要数羊脂球。
书的作者是莫泊桑，第一次接触莫泊桑，是看《项链》，觉得他的文字非常有深度，通常是以一个耐人寻味的讽刺性结尾收场。《羊脂球》亦是如此。
《羊脂球》的诞生，使莫泊桑一鸣惊人，这不仅是莫泊桑的处女作，更是他的成名作、代表作。小说的主人公羊脂球是名妓女，属于社会的最低阶层，是受到唾弃和背负耻辱的人群。她们的存在似乎代表了人类的堕落，社会的黑暗。小说中，女主人公羊脂球就是以这样的形象出现在那些所谓“上等人”中间的。这种身份，不但遭到“同车人”的蔑视，包括她自己都为自己的身份卑微羞愧不已。
以致当那些傲慢的老爷、太太们由于匆忙出逃而忘记准备食物，饿得饥肠辘辘之时，善良的羊脂球竟然“低声下气”地请求他们吃自己丰美的食物。在这里，作者很自然地写到了羊脂球善良的天性，她没有激烈的心理斗争，也没有任何讨好心思地描述，她的表现是那么自然。按理说，以那些“上等人”上车时对于她的无礼态度，羊脂球是不该同情和帮助他们的。但是她的善良天性却不忍看到别人的悲惨境遇，反而以德报怨、不计前嫌，竟然企求别人接受她的帮助，好像他们若是吃了她的东西，反倒是对她的一种恩惠，一种奖赏。读到这里，人们被深深触动了。一个妓女，竟然具备这样一颗慈悲之心，无论是在当时还是现在，都是难能可贵的`。
可是当法国的驿车在离开敌战区时，被一名普鲁士军官扣留。军官一定要车上的羊指球陪他过夜，否则驿车就不能通过。羊脂球出于爱国心断然拒绝，可是和她同车的有身份的乘客为了各自私利，逼她为了大家而牺牲自己，羊脂球出于无奈而作了让步。可当第二天早上驿车出发时，那些昨天还苦苦哀求的乘客们却突然换了一幅嘴脸，个个疏远她，不屑再与她讲话。
也许羊脂球的职业并不光彩，可是她为了那些伯爵、夫人等表面上光彩的人不惜出卖自己的灵魂，可是那些人在羊脂球“牺牲”后竟冷眼旁观。她觉得自己被这些顾爱名誉的混帐东西轻视淹没了，当初，他们牺牲她，之后又把她当作一件肮脏的废物扔掉。
无论是前面的羊脂球的食物被掏空，还是后面她被推去跟敌方军官睡觉换取贵族的继续逃亡，羊脂球都被牺牲了。贵族始终看紧他们腰包里的金子，就算是自己的恩人，当威胁到自己的利益时他们都会变成嗜血的恶狼。资本主义统治下的人，能拥有权力、金钱、地位，都是血腥堆积出来的。他们就像是吸血虫，如马克思所说“上上下下都滴着肮脏的血”，也正是这种丑恶的灵魂给他们带来了财富。当一个人有利用价值的时候，他们会把你伺候得像皇帝，这就是贵族的价值观，他们自私贪婪的本性只允许他们用金钱去衡量一切。现实中赤裸裸的金钱交易、残酷的争名夺利冲刷了一切行为上的终极关怀。这在后文中显露无疑。
作者用一个不愿委身侵略者、地位卑微的妓女和当时一些上层人士作对比；作者以经过关卡前羊脂球把提篮里的东西拿出来与大家一起分享和经过关卡后他们对她的一屑不顾作鲜明对比。这些是在时处的对照，另外也是对爱国方式的对比。读完《羊脂球》的第一感觉，就是为羊脂球叫不平。资本主义法国人与人之间的地位隔阂、建立在金钱上的虚伪友谊和亲密，在作者笔下被淋漓尽致地体现出来。
小说通篇没有描述过羊脂球的心理活动，她的喜与乐、哀与愁、快乐与欣慰、委屈与愤怒都是通过她的一举一动展现在读者面前的。作者似乎已经不需要她再表白什么，但是她的一切遭遇和感受，我们已经深深感悟到、体会到。她的遭遇扣人心弦，读来真实自然。为什么羊脂球从来没有在读者面前流露过任何心理历程的变化，但是却使我们每个人都那么真实的体会到主人公的一切思想性格。
莫泊桑的这则故事恰恰以羊脂球的悲惨遭遇反衬了资本主义下的丑恶肮脏的灵魂。他们虚伪的面具下藏的都是腐朽的内脏和污秽的思想。羊脂球的身份虽然卑微，但却有着坚定的爱国信念，以及善良的心。那些看似高高在上的社会上层人物，金玉其外败絮其中，有利可图时的奉承，无利可图后的践踏。两者之间鲜明的对比，更是揭示了当时上流社会的腐朽与虚伪。
羊脂球
Throughout the novel did not describe the ball's psychological activity, her happiness and joy, sorrow and sad, happy and delighted, injustice and anger by her show in front of the readers. The author seems to have no longer needed her confession, but all her feelings, we have a deeply comprehend.
The author USES a series of contrast method. He did not tell us directly the ball the image is the beauty and ugliness, but we for her beauty, kindness experience deep. Why is that? Because the author around the beautiful kind of suet ball depicts a group of ugly, vulgar person. Although they have high social status, and have and their status is inversely proportional to the dirty soul. Is also the franco-prussian war victims, the difference between person and person how can so different? Solemnity even respected people at ordinary times, in front of the disaster shows shameless face, and on the social status and dignity of people, selfless kind.
Maupassant's work often makes us in shock, more to remember the love of the motherland, love people, love the great writers of peace. Although, in the work, he often see the ugliness of life, part of the dark, stripping analysis it bleeding, even daunting. But he has let us see more real, return of life.
Maupassant for summary on their own creation, is the "hidden" in his writing skills. Like a picture, when the picture on a piece of scenery or a character occurs, we went to live from a piece of green leaf can infer is the scene of spring, from a character wearing and temperament to be able to see his status. Only those mediocre painter, can choose to use a forest to reflect in the spring, with the characteristics of a whole group of people to foil should reflect the figure. Maybe, this is a great artist and the difference between ordinary writer.
小说通篇没有描述过羊脂球的心理活动，她的喜与乐，哀与愁，快乐与欣慰，委屈与愤怒都是通过她的一举一动展现在读者面前。作者似乎已经不需要她再表白什么，但是她的一切感受，我们已经深深感悟到。
作者成功运用了一系列对比的方法。他没有直接告诉我们羊脂球这个形象是美与丑，可是我们对于她的美丽，善良却
莫泊桑的作品往往使我们在受到震撼之余，更加记住这位热爱祖国，热爱人民，热爱和平的伟大作家。虽然，在作品里，他常常将人生的丑恶，阴郁的部分拿出来，把它剥析的流血不止，甚至令人望而生畏。但他却让我们看到更加真实的，重新再现的人生。
莫泊桑对于自己创作上的总结，很好的体现了他在写作上的“隐藏”技巧。就象一幅图画，当画面上的一片景色或者一个人物出现时，我们往住从一片嫩绿的叶子就可以推断出是春天的景致，从一个人物的穿着和气质就可以看出他的身份地位。只有那些平庸的画家，才会选择去用一片森林来体现春天，用一整群人的特征来衬托所要体现的人物。也许，这就是伟大的艺术家和普通作家的不同之处吧。
羊脂球读后感(2)
Literature is more than birds fly far dream, beautiful emotion than flowers bloom, brighter than the stars flash was intelligent. So, read a literary classics that seems to enjoy.
"Suet ball" this novel is about failure in a war of people fleeing war zone, sitting in a car of France will many celebrities lady, and one is called the ball prostitutes.
At noon on the carriage of the first, who all don't have to eat, just the ball with a lot of food, and others to share.
Second on the carriage, and in the case of a horse-drawn carriage almost for the first time, however, this is the ball didn't have to eat, others have brought, but no one wants to share his own lunch with her, on the road, they for the ball, also ironic, she laughed at her, the so-called social celebrities, ladies heart is so ugly.
I feel very sad for the ball, she was the gang cheat very miserably, I also very hate that gang of evil beast, they not only doesn't even have basic patriotism, is on the civilization etiquette form see clumsy.
文学是比鸟飞得还远的梦想，比花开得还美的情感，比星星闪得还亮的聪慧。所以说，读一本文学名著就似享受一般。
《羊脂球》这篇小说讲的是在一场战争中失败的人民纷纷逃离战区，在一辆会法国的车上坐着很多名流淑女，还有一个叫羊脂球的'妓女。
在马车上的第一个中午，谁都没有带吃的，只有羊脂球带了许多吃的，和其他人分享了。
第二次上马车时，和第一次在马车上的情况差不多，不过，这次是羊脂球没有带吃的，其他人都带了，但没人愿意与她分享自己的午餐，在路上，他们对羊脂球的事情十分不满，还讽刺她，嘲笑她，那些所谓的社会上的名流、淑女们的心灵是那么的丑恶。
我替羊脂球感到十分伤心，她被那伙人骗的好惨，我也十分憎恨那伙可恶的衣冠禽兽，他们不仅连基本的爱国之心都没有，就是在文明礼节上都形见笨拙。
