@article{2017,title={The Arrivisme in Maupassant’s Bel-Ami},abstractNode={Bel-Ami is the story of an adolescent who left his hometown to seek for ways to become rich in Paris. Just like many countrymen who lived in poverty, Georges Duroy also had a poor life. He was just a railway employee. But, his life started to change with an unexpected coincidence. While wandering the streets of Paris, he met his army-service friend, Charles Forester, who suggested him to become a journalist. His friend succeeded in convincing him to do a job in which he had no experience and therefore had hesitations at first. For Georges, this new job opened many doors that were close to many adolescents in Paris. In 1880, bourgeois was the dominant class in France. City-dwellers had become even richer thanks to the conveniences provided by the Industrial Revolution. Becoming aware of how much these people earned in the society he lived in, Georges Duroy did all the tricks that would open the doors to richness for him. He abused the trust of the women that helped him. Using his attractiveness, he made women fall in love with him. The only reason for getting married to one of these women named Madeleine was her success as a journalist. He married to the young lady named Suzanne only for the dowry that she would bring for him. The other women were there just to satisfy this success-addicted hero’s material and sexual needs. Viewing women as a means of achieving his goals, he never hesitated to make use of them and then throw them away. By imitating the journalists that earned money though immoral ways, he got involved in all the tricks and dishonest behaviours. Nothing was left of his rural innocence, and therefore he turned into a person who would do anything to achieve his goals. Maupassant presents the audience a success-addicted person who achieved a higher status through immoral means in the society. Using this hero, he also presents journalism as a job transforming into an endeavour in which money could be earned via immoral ways and the real face of a society in which all the relationships are dependent on the power of money.},author={Uğur YÖNTEN},year={2017},journal={Journal of Turkish Studies}}