歐·亨利的短篇小說《沒有結局的故事》描寫一位每周隻掙六美元的貧窮女工在將要參加一次約會前的心理活動，麵對貧窮無趣的生活與闊佬的約會誘惑，主人公雖一時動搖但最終拒絕。文章詳細描述了主人公的拮據生活，以及如何用六美元來度過一周的生活，真實地表現了她的生活狀況和麵對兩難抉擇時複雜的內心世界。歐·亨利成功地捕捉和把握住這一生活片段，充分展示了資本主義社會中小人物的貧困生活和悲劇命運。
It seems to be saying that one of the worst thing that someone can do is to take sexual advantage of a poor woman. This seems like something of an antiquated idea--it implies that women are prey for predatory men and that men who use the poverty of women to exploit them are the worst sort of person.

《歐仁妮·葛朗台》講述了一個老箍桶匠葛朗台靠囤積居奇、投機倒把，成為當地首富。他刻薄吝嗇，把金錢看得重於一切，不惜逼走因父親破產自殺來投靠他的侄子，折磨把自己的私蓄送給堂兄作盤纏的歐仁妮，並因為反對女兒與落難公子的愛情，把袒護女兒的妻子虐待致死。他所有的樂趣都集中在積聚財物上，死時留下一份偌大的家私，卻無補於女兒的命運。
Eugénie's father Felix is a former cooper who has become wealthy through both business ventures and inheritance. However, he is very miserly. Felix's nephew Charles Grandet arrives from Paris unexpectedly at their home. Charles does not realize that his father has gone bankrupt. His father's ruin and suicide are soon published in the newspaper, and Felix considers Charles to be a burden, and plans to send him off overseas to make his own fortune. However, Eugénie and Charles fall in love with each other. She gives him some of her own money to help with his trading ventures. Later Felix is angered when he discovers that Eugénie has given her money to Charles. This leads to his wife falling ill, and his daughter being confined to her room. Eventually they are reconciled, and Felix reluctantly agrees that Eugénie can marry Charles. In 1827 Charles returns to France. By now both of Eugénie's parents have died. However Charles is no longer in love with Eugénie. He becomes engaged to the daughter of an impoverished aristocratic family, in order to make himself respectable. He writes to Eugénie to break off their engagement. Eugénie then decides to become engaged to Cruchot des Bonfons. Bonfons de Cruchot marries Eugénie hopeful of becoming fabulously wealthy. However, he dies young, and at the end of the book Eugénie is a very wealthy widow. At the end of the novel, by the standards of the time she should be unhappy, childless and unmarried, but she is instead quite content with her lot because he has learned of the hypocrisy and shallowness of the bourgeois.
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