Comparison Of The Bet And The Necklace

Her and her husband started working nonstop to earn some money. Madame Liosel was now cleaning her own house and doing all of the house duties such as washing clothes, dishes, and going on her own to get groceries to save the money they already had. Madame Liosel often found herself reminiscing about how she looked the night of the formal event. Kleine-Ahlbrandt said, "… but in her misery, she often remembers the minister's ball, where she had her great success. What, she asks herself, would have been her fortune had she not lost the necklace" (Ahlbrandt 3). As the years went by full of hard work, they both start to age really fast. Madame Liosel was no longer strong nor hardworking and her voice was very shaky. Her hair was messy and her hands were red and worn out from all of her work. Years later, she ran into her best friend and told her what happened. Maupassant states in the story that Madame Liosel's best friend tells her, "… Mine was an imitation. It was worth at the very most five hundred francs" (Maupassant

Both the necklace and the bet, both by different writers define human traits such as conceited , generous , anxious, and honesty. Those are pure human traits and showing of emotions and these emotions describe the characters in both stories .

In conclusion dialogue can show many attributes of a character, while others may look deeper at the actions of the characters instead of the dialogue. As shown “The Necklace” and “The Bet” have very different characters that would often show a lot of themselves through dialogue. As seen most of the characters mentioned in the passages are very different from other which is clear when the reader reads their dialogue. Actions might speak louder than words, but for character words might be stronger than what the writer had us know.

Mme. Loisel is a beautiful woman who wants` to appear that she prestige and glamour’s jewels and she pays for enormous price to appear something she’s not. This incoming encounter prolongs throughout the entire story. Mme. Loisel wants to be well to do but she is married to a clerk and is far from well-to-do This first struggle illustrated by Maupassant drives the story very well. The first struggle presented in “The Necklace” was when the invitation came. Mme Loisel, fought inwardly because she wasn’t as elegant as the guest would be at the event. Loisel has been struggling with this internally for years. However, when the invitation is given to Mme. Loisel wants to be a guest at this eloquent dinner, but not unless she can be in the most impressive attire and jewels. This situation is well demonstrated when Mme. Loisel states, “there is nothing more humiliating than to look poor among other women who are rich” (Maupassant, The Necklace). Cautiously after these two experiences are introduced, she is introduced to further things that get her into trouble. Thus, the conflict within the story is driving the plot and frequently

“ The Necklace,” by the Guy de Maupassant, is about an unsatisfied young woman who wants a high class life style that she has. Madame Loisel born in a middle class family and married a little clerk. However, her dreams is more than that life style. She wants to lead her life just like a high class people which is never come true in her whole life. Madame Loisel’s husband tries to give her better life and make her happy but he is not satisfied her. One day Monsieur Loisel manages an invitation card for a ball dance at a minister residence. Madame Loisel refuses to go there because she does not have a nice dress. Her husband sacrifices his dream to buy a gun for the summer and gives his all savings to buy Madame Loise’s dress. Again, she refuses

The stories “The Necklace” written by Guy de Maupassant (1884) and “The Bet”written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1889 ) use dialogue to show what the character thinks and how they act. They use dialogue to show the way a character thinks and acts in a story. In the story “The Necklace” is it use dialogue to show their different behaviors. They also use dialogue in the story “The bet” uses dialogue to show characters how their character traits. Dialogue in “The Necklace” and “The Bet” functions to reveal aspects of character by demonstrating their behaviors and their character traits.

In The Necklace Madame Lousiel lost a so called “expensive necklace” that she borrowed from a friend. She was nervous to own up to her mistake, so she went out to buy a replacement which left her in severe debt.

Madame Loisel felt her only option is to buy her friend a new necklace when she loses the original one she borrowed for a party. Instead of confronting her friend and telling her the truth about the necklace she and her husband went to the jewelers to price a replacement. As she said "We must see about replacing the diamonds," (Maupassant 340) to save herself from the embarrassment of being irresponsible.

In the short stories,” The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant and “ The Story of an hour” by Kate Chopin, The two main protagonists Mathilde Loisel and Louis Mallard are both unable to make decisions for them selves due to there husbands authority. In and around the era these short stories took place in the men in the relationships controlled the fiancees and women were left at home to do the house work and be a typical “stay at home mother”. The two women are struggling to find true happiness in their relationships, looking to be in a wealthier class of society and frustrated going through the process of finding their identity. With their second half's making major decisions for them and being confined in an un wanted relation ship put the main

The necklace she had borrowed was a fake and not worth more than 500 frances. It's ironic she gave her friend a real diamond necklace and she had to got through what she went through all because of a simple

What would you do if you borrowed something from a friend and lost it? Would probably do anything you could to replace the item? Would you go so far that you sell everything you have in order to buy it back? Then, after years of struggling to build your wealth back up, what if you found out the original borrowed item was fake? This is the conflict Guy de Maupassant, the author, portrays in “The Necklace.”

After finding a pleasant dress to wear to the ball, she still is not satisfied with the way she is going to present herself at the ball. As the day of the ball came closer and closer Mathilde, “seemed depressed, disturbed, worried-despite the fact that her dress was ready” (335). Concerned, her husband one day asked her what was making her upset. She told him that she did not have one single jewel to wear and just rather not go to the party. Monsieur suggested that she, “wear some fresh flowers” because it was “considered chic at [that] time of the year” (336). But Mathilde was not persuaded. She did not want to look poor compared to the other women wearing diamonds and rubies. Lastly, Monsieur decided that she must borrow some from her friend Madame Forestier. He wondered how they did not think of this before. The next day, Mathilde took a visit to her friends house to pick out a few jewels for the

The dialogue in “The Necklace” and the “Bet” functions to reveal aspects of character by demonstrating all of their feelings, thinking, behaviors and their traits showing how those certain situations changed the character's perspective of what he or she believed in. In the story “The Necklace” Mathilde believed if you were had beauty you deserve anything you desire. In “The Bet” the Lawyer that that 2 million dollars will buy your happiness.

Guy de Maupassant, writer of “The Necklace”, is a renowned French short story author from the 19th century. Considered to have died at a young age from poor mental health, he still produced several short stories and six novels (e.g., biography.com). Guy de Maupassant is an author who can write in great dept with such little space. “The Necklace” is just one of his many great works that has his consistent technique. This particular short story is about a nice-looking and charismatic woman, named Mathilde Loisel. She is unpleased with her life and she wants a lot more. She desires a wealthy person’s lifestyle, and the things she does to accomplish her goals causes her constant worry. Her husband, Monsieur Loisel, inherits two tickets to the Ministerial Ball. Mr. Loisel is a man that is willing to do anything and everything for his wife, no matter the grievance it causes for him. Mr. Loisel then gives her money to purchase an acceptable dress; after she complains that she has not a thing to wear. The elegant ball dress that she now has is not enough, and she insists that she must have some trinkets. She receives a scornful suggestion, from Monsieur Loisel, to ask Madame Forestier for a piece of jewelry. Mme. Forestier is a woman who for the most part seems very wealthy and really fashionable, and she is the exact kind of woman Mrs. Loisel wants to imitate. After Mme. Loisel borrows a diamond necklace, her temporal happiness is short lived when she

But he said: ‘Very well. I will give you four hundred francs. And try to have a pretty gown’” (3). This generosity, in consequence, makes Madame Loisel become even more spoiled. Madame Loisel’s unhappiness, in turn, causes Monsieur Loisel to become even more adulating, as he not only pays for her dress, but also allows her to dance with other men while he sleeps in the anteroom instead of his own home. Finally, Monsieur Loisel’s suggestion to lie to Madame Forestier about the necklace causes Madame Loisel to become strong and hard-working in order to pay off their debt, “Thereafter Madame Loisel knew the horrible existence of the needy. She bore her part, however, with sudden heroism. That dreadful debt must be paid. She would pay it” (8). These mutual changes in response to the other’s flaws, such as Madame Loisel becoming more hedonistic as her husband becomes more sycophantic and Madame Loisel