Epilogue To The Necklace Essay

They leave in a rush because Mathilde doesn't want the other ladies to her in a "modest, everyday wrap" while they were wearing expensive furs. When they arrive home they realize the necklace is gone, so they retrace their steps trying to find it. When they have no luck, they buy the necklace for thirty-six thousand francs borrowing every cent from people. They spend ten years repaying everything back including interest. When it is over, Mathilde confesses to her friend and receives the shocking news that the necklace was costume jewelry and only worth a mere 500 francs at most.

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.

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She thinks that because her friend is rich and beautiful, that her material items would extend with that wealth. Instead, it shows Madame that even the richest of people do not always have to have genuine items. Madame realizes that she does have fun at the party even if she is not wearing all authentic things, the opposite of what she thinks she is wearing. A third ironic happening, is when she has been working to pay off the money for the necklace for a decade. Madame clearly admits to her friend on page 196 how she loses the necklace, and has been paying it back for ten years. As someone is reading the story, they will find it silly how Mme. is working for something when she is usually having people, mostly her husband, do things for her. Instead, she is working to pay off the money that she has spent on a replacement necklace. The turnout of the story changes Madame’s views on how silly, textile items, are not always needed for someone to be happy.

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First of all it’s extremely ironic that she never knew that it was a fake necklace until she had bought the real one. In paragraph 89 it states “ Madame Loisel cam to the know the ghastly life of abject poverty. From the very first she played her part heroically. This fearful debt must be paid off. She would pay it. The servant was dismissed.They changed their flat , they took a garret under the roof.

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'The Necklace’, gives a rather more immediate look into the emotions felt by the protagonist, and shows us the shock and panic of Mrs Loisel at the moment she faces the cataclysm of losing the necklace. Previously to losing the necklace, Mrs Loisel attends a reception, for which she borrowed the necklace, and spends the most enthusiastic time of her life, finally feeling triumphant. The aftermath is rather much more settled down and sober. The dullness then leaps into shock, displayed by the use of ellipsis, making pauses, but also referring to the reaction process it takes a person to manage a situation. This happens, as the necklace is no longer in her possession and nowhere to be found.

It turned out that her friend’s necklace was made of paste and was only worth “five hundred francs at most” (Maupassant 6) Mine. Loisel was so envious of the wealthy that she ended up working for 10 years when she really didn’t need to. If you lost somethings of a friend’s you would tell them. Therefore, Mine. Loisel was so proud of herself that she was unwilling to admit to losing her friend’s

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.

She has no clothes, no jewels, nothing. And these are the only things she loves; she feels that she is made for them. She longs so eagerly to charm, to be desired, to be wildly attractive and sought after (82). In Guy de Maupassant’s The Necklace Madame Loisel lets her pride get in the way of doing what is right.

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.

For this first paragraph, i will be discussing how the necklace relates to wants and needs. The necklace proves that you can have wants, but you cannot let them overpower needs and you cannot let them make you stop appreciating what you have in life. Mathilde takes a necklace from her friend, and then loses it. She would not tell her friend, because she was scared. She wanted to look more beautiful with more expensive jewelry, but could not afford to replace it. She was irresponsible. “ I hate not having a single jewel, not even a stone…” (maupassant 375). She wants to be rich and have all the jewels in the world, more than just appreciating what she has and accepting it.

Mathilde is shown around and was being shown off by Madame Ambassador, as if Mathilde