Analysis Of The Necklace By Guy De Maupassant

In Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace" is the story of Mathilde Loisel, who resents her "station" in life. Mathilde Loisel is shown to be a vain and ungrateful person who believes that she was born to have a better life. She feels that she has married beneath her, in spite of the fact that her husband is a hard working and dependable man. Mathilde is unable to recognize and appreciate the

Guy De Maupassant is recognized as one of the finest writers of the modern short story. Maupassant’s literary career began in 1880 in France. He was a marvelous writer of short stories which were based upon the aspects of the French Society, frequently touching sensitive subjects such as social and moral principles. The beauty of Maupassant’s stories is the unpredictability of them, quite identical to life, where things do not always turn up the way one may expect. The short story, Jewelry by Guy De Maupassant is an insightful piece, with a compelling theme of appearance versus reality and that the life is full of irony.

Thereafter, by learning a lesson from her doings there was a great transformation in Mathilde’s character from beginning to end of the story. After giving the diamond necklace to Forrestier she knew they have to live a “horrible” (5) life “of the needy.” (5) . Thus “with sudden heroism” (5) she decided to repay the debt taken for that necklace and “dismissed their servant, changed their lodgings and rented a garret under the roof.” (5) The woman who valued her youth and beauty the most lost it and became the woman of “impoverished household-strong and hard and rough.” (5) But sometimes she

In Guy De Mauspassant's `The Necklace," the author examines the theme of how learning a difficult lesson about honesty can impact someone for the rest of their life. The author also examines the theme through the use of his title, the characters who act out the events, and the plot.

Maupassant uses different tones to describe the character of Loisel . He sets a cynical tone by using the words like, “suffered,” “poverty,” “wretched,” “ugliness,” “tortured,” “angry” as shown in the third paragraph. He then describes the alliteration used in the text that describes the fantasies of Loisel through the phrases like, “dainty dinner,” “shining silverware,” “fairy forest,” “delicious dishes,” “sphinxlike.” The necklace also has a heavy irony especially in its conclusion that helps to explain the cost of pride. The irony is that Loisel worked so hard to earn money to replace the misery caused by the necklace but in reality the necklace worth nothing. Other ironic fact is that Mathilde has lost all her beauty as a result of doing labour for the

The use of rhetoric emphasizes the tragic yet ironic theme in the story of The Necklace. Madame Loisel lived in the middle class society but longed to be a member of the higher class. She wanted to live above her means and would do whatever it took to get there, however when her dream of having something of value came true, it ended up hurting her overall;

Prompt: In “The Necklace” how does the symbol of the necklace change throughout the story? Leonardo da Vinci states, "The greatest deception men suffer from is their own opinions. " In Guy de Maupassant's ” The Necklace”, Mathilde, a middle class woman, and her husband receive an invitation for a ball, however, Mathilde feels that she must not go because she is poor and simple compared to the rest of the invitees. She convinces her husband to buy her a new dress, and she borrows an expensive-looking diamond necklace from her friend, Madame Forestier.

In “The Necklace”, Guy de Maupassant uses different literary elements to help the reader connect to and better understand the story and characters. Three literary elements that Guy de Maupassant uses in the story are dramatic irony, where Mme. Loisel manipulates her husband to get her a dress for the party invitation, irony, where Mme. Loisel spends so much time not caring about anyone and trying to seem wealthy and it all just turns into her working for ten years being very poor, and finally, imagery, where Guy de Maupassant uses descriptive words to bring images to your mind to help you better understand and connect to the story. For a second, imagine that you saw a pair of shoes that you really liked and you felt like you actually needed them to live, but you did not have enough money to buy them. Would you just walk away, or get in debt, or would you try to steal them? Everyone can be greedy and selfish, but you should not let that guide you in your decisions and actions, instead think about why you want them and if you really needed them. Mme. Loisel just wanted to look wealthy, but she had a lot of good things in her life like her faithful husband, her beauty, and food on the table, but she threw it away because of her

What had seemed to be the best night of her life ended up most likely the worst making her suffer for ten years. At this point in the story, the theme starts to become evident. The reader is starting to see everything this necklace has taken away from Mathilde. Especially because of the toll it took on her body, “Mme. Loisel appeared an old woman, now.

The Characters who appear in the story “the Necklace” written by Maupassant, are go through many changes. The main character in “The Necklace” is Mathilde Loisel whose life changes because of the necklace. Mathilde Loisel is a dynamic character. At the beginning of the story she is a manipulating lady, but after losing the necklace, she changes; now she is working and collaborating with her husband. The readers meet Mathilde Loisel as a beautiful and unhappy lady: “She was one of those pretty and charming women” (7, par. 1).

The internal conflicts established in “The Necklace” were a result of Madame Loisels perception of happiness. Because of her ungrateful and dejected views on life, she didn’t realize nor recognize true merriment. In the text, Guy De Maupassant shows how Madame “..was one of those pretty and charming girls born as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of

It is seen throughout the story that the main character Madame Mathilde Loisel is thought to be way above the lifestyle she had been born into. The novel depicts her as a very beautiful women, who has a passion for a life filled with luxuries. The problem comes from her being born into a world without such luxuries. She lived her life angry and lost without these luxuries she believed she deserved. The life of Madame Loisel is where the very prevalent theme of greed is shown.

In “The Necklace” Mr. Maupassant tells a story of a woman, Mrs. Loisel, who goes through many emotions over the loss of a necklace that ends up being a fake. As she goes through these situations Mr. Maupassant gives examples of literally elements that prove what kind of person she turns out to be. Throughout the story Mrs. Loisel is conflicted with many problems just to realize who she became and how she took advantage of what she already had in her life. When it turns out to be too late she then blames her friend for letting her borrow the necklace instead of taking the responsibility of her selfish life.

Unlike Gordimer, Maupassant has more focus on characters rather than the setting, which is used mainly to progress the plot and character development. Being that the center of focus in "The Necklace" is it's characters, it starts off by giving detail on Mathilde, "She was one of those pretty, charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if a slip of fate, into a petty official's family," (Maupassant 1). The story is started in this fashion to develop Mathilde's importance as a character from the beginning, while paying no attention to setting in the first

The nineteenth century French writer, Guy De Maupassant, tells an intriguing story in "The Necklace." He depicts the painful life of a beautiful woman, unhappily born into an average family of clerks. She felt that she was destined to marry into wealth but sadly found herself settling as she married an average copyist. Unlike the women of today, women in the nineteenth century were not fortunate enough to have a career of their own; they were either born into a wealthy family or married a man with money. In "The Necklace", Guy De Maupassant creatively reveals Mathilde Loisel's dreams of a decadent lifestyle. As her struggles start to unravel, it becomes obvious that her heartache is solely