Honesty In The Necklace

Her wonderful husband and comfortable home are taken for granted. She does not realize how much her husband has given up for her happiness. Even after being invited to a magnificent ball with the wealthiest of people, she is still churlish. Mathilde's response shows her true character: "she threw the invitation on the table with disdain," then "looked at him with an irritated gland [glance] and said, impatiently," that she had nothing to wear (23). Her husband gives up his savings and his desires for Mathilde to be satisfied for this one night.

When she is given the opportunity to dress in extravagant clothing and act like she is wealthy, she found a “sense of triumph that is so sweet to a woman’s heart” (3). Mathilda Loisel’s change from the exposition of the short story to the rising action is dramatic. The reader’s first impression of the character is that she is unhappy and resentful but at the party she comes off just the opposite. She was joyful and “danced wildly, with passion, drunk on pleasure, forgetting everything in the triumph of her beauty” (3). Mathilda Loisel’s true character starts to reveal itself when the reader sees how much value she puts in possessions.

Guy De Maupassant is recognized as one of the finest writers of the modern short story. Maupassant’s literary career began in 1880 in France. He was a marvelous writer of short stories which were based upon the aspects of the French Society, frequently touching sensitive subjects such as social and moral principles. The beauty of Maupassant’s stories is the unpredictability of them, quite identical to life, where things do not always turn up the way one may expect. The short story, Jewelry by Guy De Maupassant is an insightful piece, with a compelling theme of appearance versus reality and that the life is full of irony.

‘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

The Necklace, a short story written by Guy de Maupassant, is about a greedy woman in poverty, who learns that being selfish can hurt her and others around her. Her greedy behavior indicates that she has been struggling during her years in poverty. When she scrambled to find out her purpose in life, she portrayed anger and malevolence towards others.

In Guy De Mauspassant's `The Necklace," the author examines the theme of how learning a difficult lesson about honesty can impact someone for the rest of their life. The author also examines the theme through the use of his title, the characters who act out the events, and the plot.

Guy De Maupassant’s short story, “The Jewelry”, is about a man, named M. Lantin, who marries a woman who is infatuated by fake jewelry. She compiles all sorts of jewelry and in time her husband discovers that all of it is actually real. The author uses a myriad of literary elements to make it the absorbing short story he meant for it to be.

Mathilde thinks that objects have power to change life, but when she gets the necklace and the dress, there comes an end to her happiness. She should feel happy for having a comfortable house and a loving husband but gives away the control of her happiness to the objects that she does not even possess. Both necklace and dress have great transformative powers. She was finally the woman that she should have been- happy, admired and envied. It has been rightly said, “The power does not lie within the objects but within

This research paper deals with one of Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Jewelry” and with his virtuous ability to use irony in it.

The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant is a piece of literature the finely represents the meaning of irony. This short story is about a beautiful poor woman who, since she is poor, ends up with a poor clerk as her husband. She is distressed and unhappy with her marriage until one day her husband gave her an invitation to a fancy party;instead of being elated she is merely upset as she does not have the proper attire or jewelry. Her husband agrees to give her money to buy a dress and as the wife has a friend who is a jeweler she borrows a beautiful necklace from her. She goes to the party and she has a wonderful time; after she goes home she realizes she lost her necklace and instead of going to her friend and tell her the truth she decides to replace it and it cost her ten years of work. Maupassant uses

In the story ¨The Necklace¨ by Guy de Maupassant Mme. Loisel ends up losing her friends necklace and has to buy her a new one. She has many misfortunes and blames them all on her friend, Mme. Forestier. She does not take her own responsibilities by blaming it on other people instead of herself. Mme. Loisel does not tell Mme. Forestier about the lost necklace, she instead lies to her about it by saying she will return it soon. In the story, it is also clear that Mme. Loisel's husband buys her an invitation and is unhappy because she has nothing to wear. This shows that Mme. Loisel is ungrateful, irresponsible, and dishonest

The Necklace The theme of The Necklace revolves around deceit. The deleterious effects that lives, fear, and assumptions have on lies, morality, and ethics can be seen in everyday life. Examples of this could be; lying to get out of trouble, cheating on your spouse, or maybe even passing off fake products as the real deal.

Guy de Maupassant, a french writer, wrote and published a very detailing short story in February of 1884, known as "The Necklace". The story takes place in the late nineteenth century when the main character gets invited to a formal event. Preparations are made based on the desire of materialistic items to satisfy the main character. The allowance of obtaining a higher image, rather than appreciating her current status may place her in life-long debt.

The internal conflicts established in “The Necklace” were a result of Madame Loisels perception of happiness. Because of her ungrateful and dejected views on life, she didn’t realize nor recognize true merriment. In the text, Guy De Maupassant shows how Madame “..was one of those pretty and charming girls born as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of

In the short story, “The Necklace,” Guy de Maupassant tells the story of a woman who was born in a family of clerks, Mathilde Loisel. She was a charming, pretty, married lady, whom I don’t feel sorry for. Mme. Loisel was living an adequate life with her husband, M. Loisel. She has a roof over her head, clothes to cover her body, and a peasant to do her “humble housework.”