Audiobook.......This novella was my first reading of anything by Guy de Maupassant. Clearly it was a vehicle for the author to espouse his observations and beliefs. And in this cas, it worked well from the reader's standpoint as well as the author's. The guiding points, in my opinion are twofold: 1) Beauty perverts and misleads the beholder
2) Human beings are not the intended result of God's gift of life, and will not likely survive in the long-term because of their ability to think. Interesting, n'est-ce pas? ( )