Comparing Greed And Loss In The Necklace And Disabled

Mathilde gained a necklace that had value to her, but later doing the story she figures out that the necklace has no value, and not a treasure.

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.

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

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

A piece from the story is, “She suffered from the poorness of her house, from its mean walls, worn chairs, and ugly curtains. All these things, of which other women of her class would not even have been aware, tormented and insulted her” (deMaupassant 2). This shows how unhappy Mathilde is with her life and how she wishes she was among the wealthy women who have probably never even thought about being poor or struggling to pay for

‘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

“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

A major theme in “The Necklace” is greed and envy, we can see this in Mathilde, who is never satisfied with what she has, always wanting more. The more you have, the more you want, it just keeps snowballing in a amalgamation of greed, never satisfying you, or in this case Mathilde. Even though Mathilde is blessed with what she already has, she still wants more, she is greedy and selfish, not caring for her husbands wishes or even considering them, all she cares about is looking wealthy at a party, and ultimately, this is what leads to her family's fall into poverty and despair.

‘’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.

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.

All she wanted was to have people think she was someone she wasn’t just to be liked for one night. Second, Mathilde s spoiled by her husband. He gives her what she wants when she wants it. “As her husband went out, she remained in her evening clothes, lacking strength to get into bed, huddled on a chair, without volition or power of thought” (Maupassant 4). Mathilde’s husband pays to fund her need of a new dress and pays the help replace the necklace that he didn't even lose.

    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

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.