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The Bet And The Necklace

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Use evidence you have gathered from both passages “The Necklace” and “The Bet” to write an essay analyzing how dialogue in each passage functions to reveal aspects of the character. You should discuss more than one character from each passage. In “The Necklace and “The Bet” the author uses dialogue to reveal aspects of the character. The dialogue in “The Necklace and “The Bet” functions to reveal aspects of character by (demonstrating) their feeling and their character traits. First of all, in “The Necklace the author uses dialogue to reveal aspects of the character. He does this in the sense that she is a ungrateful person. I know this because in the text it states "Aha! Scotch broth! What could be better?” This is important because it

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