The plot of the story is devided into 4 parts : the exposition, the story itself, the climax and the denouement. The exposition begins with the narrator talking about his best friend, Simon, whom he is finally to see 15 years after. George, the narrator, tells a reader that  Simon was his soulmate. They were devoted to each other.We observe the story itself when George arrives to the station and two friends meet each other. It lasts to the point when another character appears, a grandfather. Here the climax is noticed. Namely, when the narrator watches the old man trying to reach a plate with suger rice and doing his best to eat as many as possible sweets. Besides, that the grandfather is so feeble that he hardly takes anything with his trembling hands, he is categorically forbidden to eat a little bit more sweets due to his critical state of health. George watches this grotesque picture and just cannot understand why Simon and his wife treat him in such a way. The denouement, being as usual effortless in Maupassant's stories, is observed when after having played cards George comes to his room, sad and low-spirite, thinking about nothing but the last wish of the old man before death which he wants to realize everyday - to swallow a lot of sweets.