Considering that the stories are identical mirror images of each other, what does this say about the way maupassant felt about the characters within each story?

maupassant probably felt the same way about the characters in each story
that maupassant had no feelings for his characters and so he ignored them
that even though the stories mirror each other, maupassant did not feel the same way about the characters
that maupassant trying to build a motif from one character to the next within the mirrored images of the stories