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In “The Necklace”, Mathilde Loisel is a woman who cannot tolerate her lower-class status, believing “herself born for every delicacy and luxury”(82). Mathilde’s vain materialistic goals, make her bitter and unhappy. The main point of irony in the story is the fact that Mathilde borrows the necklace and looses it. The necklace was very expensive, or so she thought, so she ended up in poverty

Mathilde never seemed satisfied with what she had. She envied the upper class and felt she should have what they have. “She suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born for all the delicacies and all the luxuries. She suffered from the poverty of her dwelling” (Maupassant). This desire to belong in the upper class caused her only to focus on what she did not have. When her husband surprises her with the invitation to the ball the only thing she can think about is not having the proper dress for the occasion. “She looked at him with an irritated eye, and she said, impatiently: “’And what do you expect me to put on my back?’” (Maupassant). It seemed

The necklace serves as a symbol for greed. When Mathilda Loisel loses the necklace that she believed was worth forty thousand francs, she desperately retraces her steps and gets her husband to help her find it as well. It ends up taking ten years to pay off the debt. The ten years were hard on Mathilda Loisel and her husband, and Maupassant told the reader that she “looked old now… with hair half combed, with skirts award, and reddened hands” (6). However, even after the long ten years of manual labor all because she lost the necklace, she “sat down near the window and though of that evening at the ball so long ago, when she has been so beautiful and so admired” (6). The necklace symbolizes that when greed controls emotions and decisions, it never leads to good results.

Mathilde wanted to be rich and live a luxurious life. She did not just want to be rich but she thought that she deserved to be rich. Before she got married she was living a decent lifestyle,she even had a maid for the house “She suffered endlessly, feeling herself born every delicacy and luxury.” (1). One night Mathilde and her husband got invited to go to a fancy ball. But she did not have any jewelry to wear so she borrowed a necklace from her friend. After the party she realized that the necklace was gone. She and her husband had to go out and buy the same necklace but for thirty six thousand francs. They had to be in debt for more than ten years. One day she decided to tell the woman that she borrowed the necklace from that she lost her original one and this is another one. ‘“Oh my poor Mathilde! But mine was imitation. It was worth at very most five hundred francs!...”’(8). Mathilde and her husband were in debt for most of their lives and lived in poverty. The irony in the story is Mathilde wanted to be very rich but ended up the poorest of the poor and the necklace she lost was imitation and she ended up paying so much more money to replace it than she actually

‘The Necklace’ is a morality tale written by Guy de Maupassant where he portrays the life of a beautiful but dissatisfied girl named Mathilde who desires to live a luxurious life despite being born into a clerk’s family and marrying a clerk too. Mathilde’s discontentment in life instigates her to pretend someone rich that she is not. Moreover, it leads her to severe trouble that caused ten years of hardship to Mathilde and her husband. So, this suffering is a punishment for Mathilde which taught her a lesson and changed her dramatically over the course of the story by making her a person of completely different personality for whom appearances

Mathilde constantly longs for a luxurious life and a higher status. “ She would dream of great reception halls... men whose attention every woman envies and longs to attract” (Applebee, 28). This quote depicts how she is not happy with what she has but instead wants more. She dreams of a grand life and for people to notice her whenever she walks into the room.

Mathilde finds herself dissatisfied with her life. She craves for riches and glamour. Instead of appreciating what she has, Mathilde craves for jewels and high class commodities. One day, her husband receives an invitation to a formal party, which would give Mathilde a chance to experience the luxuries of high society. However, she seems upset because she does not own a formal dress to wear to the ball. Mathilde’s husband feels compassion for her and gives her his savings to buy a new and elegant dress. The night before the ball, we noticed Mathilde’s greed when she complains that she has no ornament to put on. She arrogantly tells her husband, “It's so mortifying to look poverty-stricken among women who are rich” (Maupassant). For this reason, he then advises her to borrow some jewelry from her friend, Madam Forestier. Blinded by greed, Mathilde follows her husband’s advice and borrows what looks like a diamond necklace. At the ball, she has a great time. However, when she and her husband get home, she realizes she has lost the diamond necklace. Worried by the consequences of losing a diamond necklace, Mathilde’s husband decides to buy a new necklace by using his inheritance, getting loans, and borrowing money from acquaintances. They return the necklace to Madam Forestier and focus on paying their debt. After 10 years of hard labor and misery, they eventually pay all their debts. At the end of the short story, Mathilde finds out that the diamond necklace she borrowed was fake. Ultimately, we see how greed drove Mathilde to misery and

Nevertheless, this leads to more labor in the return of debt. An analogous pair to this would be the cheap necklace that was revealed in the end. The cheap necklace seems very extraordinary in the outside, yet its value is low like Mathilde’s trust. She places in tons of efforts to maintain her connection with her friend, yet that fake bond is only built by lies. After lying to her friend and realizing the truth, Mathilde wonders the different outcome if she told Forestier the truth.

“She would have liked so much to please, to be envied to be charming, to be sought after” (5). Mathilde’s character is always striving to have others see her outside of her reality, to have someone think of her to be in a higher class of society. De Maupassant uses the class separation to intensify Mathilde’s desires versus reality. She often refers to not having

‘’The key to happiness is spending your money on experiences rather than possessions, according to studies. ’’ The Necklace is a story which talks about Mathilde, a character that always want more material goods and finished the story without any of this. Throughout the story of ‘’The Necklace’’ it is possible to see that Mathilde is a character that changes her actions over the story.

In de Maupassant's Necklace, Mathilde and her husband are dissimilar in character. Mathilde Loisel, a wife of a clerk, is very discontent and unloving to her husband Monsieur Loisel. She refers to her husband as “... a little clerk…”(1). This demeans her spouse and her lifestyle that he provides that is not quite desirable seem much more tragic and troublesome. Mathilde also thinks that her husband is not enough for her and longs for a richer husband.

In “The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant, Mathilde’s character is a terrible person. She didn't care about anyone but herself, and she deserved the life she ended up with. First, Mathilde only cares about money and her appearance, here she would be classified as a gold digger. Mathilde was talking to her husband about going to a ball and she said, “There is nothing as humiliating as looking poor in the middle of a lot of rich women” (Maupassant 1). Mathilde wanted money for a new dress or she would not go to the ball her husband got a very hard to get invitation to.

If there is a common experience people find in their lives, it is a desire they wish to obtain for themselves. With all the trouble and hard-work Mathilde had to go through in "The Necklace", Guy de Maupassant was able to express how the greed of a woman can get her into a horrific situation and head towards the downfall of her life as the ultimate result instead of what she desired. Mathilde wanted to live her life in the same style as the wealthy folk around her but the dreams of her imagination turned into a nightmare of a reality when she was not careful. Valuable things can be deceiving when people look more closely into them than how it only looks in front of them and that was what Mathilde soon had to find out for herself.

Everyone has experienced envy, sorrow, pain, and confusion. The selfish Mathilde Loisel has brought these emotions to a great extent. In the Diamond Necklace Guy De Maupassant tells how Mathilde put her life in a landslide towards bankruptcy and to add an overall stressful and drab life.

    In the beginning of the story, Mathilde is very narcissistic and filled with greed. The narrator highlighted her narcissism in the text. When Mathilde was looking at the jewelery her friend was going to lend to her, she found one particular necklace that she desperately desired. The narrator describes, “Her hands trembled as she took it. She fastened it round her throat, outside her high-necked waist, and was lost in ecstasy at her reflection in the mirror” (Maupassant 4). This characterization demonstrates her narcissism. Mathilde enjoys the necklace so much, and seems to enjoy it a little too much. The reader may notice this rather negative trait from this scene. Mathilde