Analysis Of The Book ' The Necklace '

When she is given the opportunity to dress in extravagant clothing and act like she is wealthy, she found a “sense of triumph that is so sweet to a woman’s heart” (3). Mathilda Loisel’s change from the exposition of the short story to the rising action is dramatic. The reader’s first impression of the character is that she is unhappy and resentful but at the party she comes off just the opposite. She was joyful and “danced wildly, with passion, drunk on pleasure, forgetting everything in the triumph of her beauty” (3). Mathilda Loisel’s true character starts to reveal itself when the reader sees how much value she puts in possessions.

Her husband tries and tries until he comes up with a great idea to give her an invitation to a ball. She cheers up a little until she realizes she can’t afford a dress. Her husband asks how much and had given her the money to purchase herself a nice dress. She has the dress but still doesn’t feel pretty nor happy after she put the dress on. She wanted more than just the dress which was jewels but didn’t have any. Someone suggested that she should use flowers, but didn’t find happiness in the flowers. Madame Forestier offer Mathilde to borrow her diamond necklace, which gave her the emptiness that she needed to feel happy. She had a great night and was on her way home when she went to feel for the necklace but found that it was gone. She started to panic and retraced her steps but couldn’t find it anywhere. She and her husband went from jeweler to jeweler to find the exact necklace and to replace it. They worked and worked until they had paid it off and returned it to Madame Forestier. She was a little annoyed since she had got it a few weeks after the ball. Eventually she admitted to what she had done and was surprised with what she was told. She was informed that the necklace was a fake. That it was costume jewelry. In this story the Madame was an outsider towards Mathilde. Mathilde didn’t know who she was and had taken the necklace to wear for the

But later in the story her discontentment caused her to terrible problem and sealed her fate. The necklace of Madame Forestier has been lost. It is her discontent that caused her to borrow the necklace which she lost. But it is an irony of fate that Mathilde and her husband faced 10 years of hardship for nothing but a fake necklace which cost “at most only five hundred francs.” (6) For this necklace they repaid a debt of “thirty-six thousand francs.” (5) If Mathilde and her husband had admitted to Madame Forestier about the truth of losing the necklace then the consequences would have been different and they would have avoided the hardship. This relates with another morality of the story which is to tell the truth.

'The Necklace’, gives a rather more immediate look into the emotions felt by the protagonist, and shows us the shock and panic of Mrs Loisel at the moment she faces the cataclysm of losing the necklace. Previously to losing the necklace, Mrs Loisel attends a reception, for which she borrowed the necklace, and spends the most enthusiastic time of her life, finally feeling triumphant. The aftermath is rather much more settled down and sober. The dullness then leaps into shock, displayed by the use of ellipsis, making pauses, but also referring to the reaction process it takes a person to manage a situation. This happens, as the necklace is no longer in her possession and nowhere to be found.

“I need her necklace! The gold and the diamonds look so good!” Olivia told her brother Simon.

“I know you are hiding, come out, come out, wherever you are” said the witch

‘’She was one of those pretty and charming girls, born, as if by an accident of fate, into a family of clerks’’. The necklace is an good example of literature because it stands the test of time,people can relate to it, and it teaches a life lesson. This was how she ended up. The Necklace is an good example of good literature because it stands the test of time. It stands the test of time because it has irony.

Anna approached Karolina one day with a letter from the Dowager Duchess Stéphanie de Beauharnais addressed to Karolina. The Duchesses’ spies had informed her that Karolina was in New York City visiting Anna and so she had written to her there. Karolina opened the letter and read it quickly.

When writing fiction, authors tend to use many elements of writing in order to make certain parts of the story stick out to readers and become more significant. In the short story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, the story line suggests the theme that any one mistake can lead to a lifetime of impact. The specific elements that help support this theme are third person narration, a sense of nostalgia, and repetition that creates curiosity among characters and readers. By way of example, a significant element of this story to express the theme is using third person narration. Having a third person narrator who is not a character in the story allows more creation of imagery.

The last piece of evidence supporting this statement is as follows “She thought of the silent antechambers hung with Oriental tapestry, lit by tall bronze candelabra, land of the two great footmen in knee-breeches who sleep in the big arm-chairs, made drowsy by the heavy warmth

He ask one of their friends to borrow a necklace and give it back after the party. When they got to the party everyone ask who she was and said she looked stunning. At the party she was having such a great time that she did not realize her her husband was asleep in another room. When she got back home, she noticed the necklace was not around her neck anymore. They quickly retraced their steps, and even put out a reward for anyone who found it.

How you ever met a person who is different on the inside than on the outside? Mathilde Loisel is a pretty, middle-class woman who lives in Paris in the late 1800s. The story “The Necklace” is written by Guy de Maupassant. She doesn’t think about others/selfish. Her husband treats her like he should and she isn’t happy with it. She cares too much about her outward appearance. Besides the fact that she is pretty, Mathilde Loisel is also a closed-minded, selfish, and a vain person.

Pride and selfishness are intense and insatiable desires that can never be fulfilled. These unquenchable needs can be demonstrated by the main characters in the short stories “The Necklace”, which exemplifies the destructiveness of pride and selfishness from a woman that feels entitled and desires what’s beyond her means and the grandmother in “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” that puts her needs before others at all costs. Although these two stories are completely different in ways that “The Necklace is written in an earlier time in Paris about a young couples difference in frugalness and “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” is written in a later date in the state of Georgia about a grandmother and her burden on her family, the two main characters share similar traits such as selfishness and pride.

Far away in a land near the edge of the world as a young, girl named Micah. Being unwise and filled with joy she tiptoes near the edge of the sand, leaving small prints in her wake. The impressions are soon washed away with the water that surpasses all obstacles. As the foam bubbles and multiplies, blocking the view of the world below, Micah awaits to find the treasures untold. The girls smile widens in disbelief as she hopes and dreams about who she could be with all the riches from down under the dark waters. The jewels could finally pull her out of the rags, that seem to have a way of only finding her. Although, if she could have the gold it could drag her to a place of no return, since it has already been the death of many men. She sits down her joy slowly dissipating as she realizes a friend like this would never reveal all the secrets that are hidden within. Still, her friend continues to calmly wave back with a wiseness beyond Micahs years. Since she is only seventeen and she does not recognize or see all that is to be seen and know about the world like her friend, who has been around since before the dinosaurs. This girl is me, and the friend that awaits close by is the ocean.

“According to the Census ACS survey, the median household income for the United States was $55,775 in 2015.”- (deptofnumbers.com). In the short story “The Necklace” the Losiels are a middle-class family. Madame Losiel cares about her social ranking and wants to improve it somehow. Her husband gets tickets to a ball. Madame Losiel makes him get her a new dress, and she borrows a diamond necklace from a friend. They go to the ball and have a fun time. After the ball, they go home. When they get home Madame Losiel finds out she lost her borrowed necklace. She then has to go into ten years of debt to buy a new diamond necklace. She buys the new necklace and gives it to her friend. After the ten years are over she meets her friend and her friend tells her that the necklace she had borrowed from her ten years ago was fake diamonds. The article”Spending Spree” talks about how teens fall into deep credit card debt and cannot get out of it. It gives you a place to go to stay out of credit card debt. Is it possible for people today to fall into a similar financial problem as the Loisels? No, it is not possible for people today to fall into debt like the Losiels because of knowledge of money management, social ranking, and accessibility of money.