Q: The Duchess is more loathsome than the Jeweller Comment.
Ans: Virginia Wolf is an English novelist and short-story writer. The psychological study of human being is the ’ common theme of her stories. In the story, “The Duchess and the Jeweller”, Virginia Wolf portrays a very pathetic, picture of the 20th century English, society. Both the characters represent the decline of the moral values in the society. Oliver Bacon was the richest and famous jeweller of England. He once sold the stolen dogs and the fake pearls. Duchess was cleverer than the jeweller. She lacks in moral values. She wanted to sell the fake pearl to the jeweller. She trapped the jeweller by using the name of her daughter. Duchess invited Oliver Bacon to her house at the weekend where Diana would also be present She used her beautiful daughter to cheat the jeweller. This shows that Duchess was more loathsome than the jeweller.
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