Ideas for my paper

I have some questions that I'm working through right now. I have a couple research questions and hopefully I can narrow it down to one or synthesize them all in one encompassing question. I'm going to examine 2 short stories by Guy de Maupassant: "Qui Sait?" (Who Knows?) and "La Chevelure" (A Tress of Hair).

I based the questions on the ones that Foucault says should be asked at the end of "What is an author?" Here they are in no particular order:

• which ideological apparatuses are present, how do they influence the protagonist, and which ideologies do the protagonists operate under?
• given the central role that objects play in both of the stories, which commodities are fetishized and what are their functions within the ideologies present? What effect do they produce on the protagonists?
• Can the protagonists' discourse be appropriated by a bourgeois or an anti-bourgeois?

Some theorists that I may or may not use for the paper: Benjamin, Marx, and Williams.