Choose either Guy de Maupassant or Shirley Jackson and research the time period in which they lived and wrote their stories

Choose either Guy de Maupassant or Shirley Jackson and research the time period in which they lived and wrote their stories

Choose either Guy de Maupassant or Shirley Jackson and research the time period in which they lived and wrote their stories. How do you believe this time period influenced their writing? What was going on historically at that time?

In a well-written paragraph of at least 350 words answer the above questions.