Guy de Maupassant's brilliant writing talent is noticeable both in his novels and in the shortest short stories. He not only described external events and movements of the human soul in moments of greatest happiness or trial. Each short story by Maupassant is an accurate sketch from life, a scene from life, a colorful image of a man or woman, young people or old people, poor people or inhabitants of high society. The work is included in the author’s collection “Moonlight.”