Dynamic Characters In The Necklace

Madame Loisel is trying to fit in by wearing a new dress and some accessories. This shows dramatic irony, because Madame Loisel wanted to be in the upper class and feel pretty, so she borrowed the necklace from Madame Forestier. When she lost the necklace, she ended up being towards the lower class because she had to use up all of her money to replace

In "The Necklace" the authors choice of words, or diction, is very well articulated. I enjoyed this story because the narrator, Guy de Maupassant sets us so much suspense with the tone of the story. Madame Louisel essentailly loses a valuable item, or so she thought, and goes to major extents and even life-deminishing problems to just make it seem like she was not responsible enough to take care of a necklace for a night.

Madame Loisel had changed for the better in the end. In the beginning, her desires for expensive possessions were proven multiple times by details such as, "She had no gowns, no jewels, nothing. And she loved nothing but that. " Not only did she sought after the high-class lifestyle, she felt entitled to be in it. "Mathilde suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born to enjoy all delicacies and all luxuries."

“She so much longed to please, be envied, be fascinating and sought after” (de Maupassant 67). The main character desires to be at the center of attention, she wants to be coveted by others. In his fictional short story titled, “The Necklace,” Guy de Maupassant writes about how the lusting for more may cause people to be blinded and unable to see/value the treasures they already have. The story begins with an introduction of a lady who daydreams about the happiness that materialistic yearnings can bring her, forgetting her situation and social class. After taking her husband’s recommendation to borrow jewelry, specifically a diamond necklace, from her close friend Madame Forestier to wear alongside her dress at the evening reception, the main character later discovers that she had lost the necklace. Following their failure to find the necklace, Madame and Monsieur Loisel devise a plan to borrow money to replace the necklace with another and in doing so, fall into years of debt. Moreover, Maupassant uses direct characterization, imagery and situational irony to further depict why you should be grateful for what you already have before it’s too late.

On August 31, 1997, The beautiful Princess Diana died from a tragic car accident in Paris, France. The loss was devastating to many around the world and millions of flowers were laid before Buckingham Palace. Her life had changed how royalty was viewed and how media and paparazzi worked, especially in the UK, and that change only sped up after the accident. And just like how society went through a change after Princess Diana's death, Mme. Mathilde Loisel of Guy de Maupassant's The Necklace underwent the change after the death of her current lifestyle. Mme. Loisel had lost a borrowed necklace that had been lent to her for a ball. She and her husband were able to replace it without the owner finding out, but it cost them 10 years of poverty and labor to do so. Mme. Loisel had lost everything, and she came to appreciate what she had, because she didn't have it forever.

Monsieur Loisel’s willingness to please Mathilde and fulfilling all her desires becomes the reason of his downfall, when she loses the necklace. He goes out in the cold winter to search for the necklace even though he has to go to work within some hours. Moreover, he devises a plan to purchase a new necklace by taking loans and mortgaging his property. On the other hand, Mathilde never cared about her husband’s wants and desires but he never had one. Rather than blaming Mathilde to be accountable for her actions, he protects her so that she doesn’t feel lonely. He did everything that a good husband should do.

Loisel had a brilliant idea, his idea was to replace the necklace with another one, they went to several stores and in one of them they found the exact copy, it costed 36,000 francs. Obviously they couldn’t pay it so Loisel and Mathilde were borrowing money from everybody, Loisel signed notes everywhere, he did business with shark loaners, and he even compromised his life. They worked for 10 years trying to pay for the necklace, Mathilde was now experiencing the life of a needy person. She learned how to do the housework, Mathilde looked like a peasant because she was carrying a basket and because of the way she was dressed “And, clad like a peasant woman, basket in arm…”(p. 231). Mathilde became old, heavy, rough, and harsh like one of the poor people. One day Mme. Loisel was walking and she saw her friend, the one that let Mme. Loisel use the necklace, Mathilde smiled with joy then told her friend how she had lost the necklace and how she replaced it, but Mathilde’s friend told her that the necklace she was wearing at the party was

Mme. Loisel seems to have had the night of her dreams until it takes a turn for the worse. Mme. Loisel ends up losing the necklace and has to find a way to replace it. The reader realizes the predicament the Loisels’ are in when they discover that “Loisel [has] eighteen thousand francs he had inherited from his father.

“She would dream of fashionable dinner parties, of gleaming silverware, of tapestries making the walls alive with characters out of history and strange birds in a fairyland forest; she would dream of delicious dishes served on wonderful china, of gallant compliments whispered and listened to with a sphinx like smile as one eats the rosy flesh of a trout or nibbles at the wings of a grouse” (729). In The Necklace Monsieur Loisel is a modest man who is satisfied with minimum worries about what people think about him or with what he owns. Monsieur Loisel struggles to understand the material wants and needs of his wife, Mathilde Loisel, but he continues to be confused with the embarrassment. “He compromised the rest of his life,

Appearance depends on one’s attitude and someone’s attitude relies on one’s most wanted desires and dreams. Sometimes, it takes a small occasion to modify someone’s life and help him or her see how an action can alter the rest of his or her life. In “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, a minor event changes the life of the main character Madame Loisel. Madame Loisel loses a necklace and has to work for the money to replace it. Throughout the story Madame Loisel's attitude, dreams, and appearance change drastically, as the events that take place, such as losing the necklace, alter her usual lifestyle.

When Madame Loisel returns from the party and decides to see herself in all her beauty before the mirror for one last time, but suddenly she cries out in utmost distress ‘“I’ve no longer got Madame Forestier’s necklace”’ (83)! This does not surprise the reader; it only confirms the reader’s prediction that Madame Loisel is as careful as a wild bull in a Fine China shop. The reader “shakes her head” in disappointment because she realizes that the protagonist does not understand that if she borrows something from a person she needs to make sure nothing terrible happens to that borrowed object. Furthermore, when Madame Loisel lies to Madame Foresteir about the necklace and tries to buy a similar new one, the protagonist and her husband “come to know the ghastly life of abject poverty, and this life lasted ten years” (84). The reader begins to see the punishment inflicted upon Madame Loisel, she lost her youth and beauty in the ten years of hard labor.

Madame Loisel’s pride demands more: “It annoys me not to have a single jewel, not a single stone, nothing to put on. I shall look like distress” (Maupassant 2). Ironically, it is Monsieur Loisel who suggests that his wife borrow jewelry from Madame Forestier, and subsequently has to spend the next ten years borrowing money to replace it. As May puts it, “Her husband exhausts his meager inheritance and then borrows the rest, mortgaging their life away to buy a replacement for the necklace” (May 7). Monsieur Loisel sacrifices everything to salvage his wife’s pride.

In the short story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, the protagonist identified as Mathilde Loisel is a dynamic character who evolves from someone who is unaccepting of her socio-economic class to someone who is accepting of her socio-economic class. In the beginning, Mathilde looks around her house before having dinner with her husband and she does not enjoy what she sees. After noticing the dirty walls, worn-out chairs and ugly curtains and all the other hideous features and furniture of her house, she “suffer[s] from the poverty of her house”(1) and she despises “all those things which tortured her and made her indignant”(1). In fact, Mathilde is exceedingly displeasant and unaccepting of her house and socio-economic class that she feels

Her persistent mindset of wanting and needing more, is how her internal conflict developed. All of Madame Loisel’s issues relate back to her internal fascination with becoming incredibly rich and valued by her peers. The text states, “She had longed so eagerly to charm, to be desired, to be wildly attractive and sought after.” (1) Madame Loisel’s mindset was simply set on materialistic things and being respected amongst her peers. Even throughout the years, her idea of ‘perfection’ never changed a bit. The story reads, “But sometimes, when her husband was at the office, she sat down by the window and thought of that evening long ago, of the ball at which she had been so beautiful and so much admired.” (5) Ten hard and stressful years later, Madame Loisel is still under the impression that everything she has must be beautiful and valued. This situation expresses irony because although she is beautiful, she still feels a desire to receive expensive things. The text states, “She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of artisans… She suffered endlessly, feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury.” (1) Although she is beautiful

Madame Loisel is a very stuck up character in the beginning of the story. She sees no value to money. She believes she was meant to live a wealthy life, and has high hopes for an elegant and luxurious life. This is shown in story when it says that “She suffered constantly, feeling that all her attributes of a gracious life, even luxury, should have rightfully been hers.”