Madame Loisel's 'No Scrubs'

In The Necklace the woman lost her friend’s “expensive” necklace. The loss of this necklace caused her and her husband to live in major debt when they decided to buy her another one just like it to replace it. They worked many jobs for ten years and she lost her beauty and health. When she saw her friend again she was told the necklace

If one is not thankful for what they have, their life will be about nothing but regret. When life is all about regret, it is pointless to live. In The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant, a lower class woman named Madame Loisel is always focused on her status, money, and popularity. When she gets invited to a dance, her and her husband do whatever they can to make her happy with her appearance. To do so, Madame Loisel asks her upper-class friend Madame Forestier to borrow an astonishing necklace like no other.

The story intially takes place at a ball that Madame Louisel has been invited to by her husband. In the beginning of the story Madame is very indecisive about making an appearance at the ball. She complained she did not have a dress, any jewels, and she was scared she would look like a "pauper"(174). She did not want to look poor around a bunch of rich woman, so she had asked a friend for a piece of jewelry to wear for the night. Excited, she picks out the diamond necklace that seemed to stand out to her. She adored it. The narrator describes it as "lovliest of all, elegant, smiling, and radiating with joy"(175). Having a blast at the party, dancing, drinking, and not thinking about anything else, Madame left the ball around four in the morning. Calling a cab, Madame and her husband were on their way home, delighted with the fun night that they had. Finally arriving at home, they begin to get into comfortable clothes when suddenly Madame notices that the diamond necklace she had borrowed from a friend for the night had gone missing. Searching everyhwere

Her husband tries and tries until he comes up with a great idea to give her an invitation to a ball. She cheers up a little until she realizes she can’t afford a dress. Her husband asks how much and had given her the money to purchase herself a nice dress. She has the dress but still doesn’t feel pretty nor happy after she put the dress on. She wanted more than just the dress which was jewels but didn’t have any. Someone suggested that she should use flowers, but didn’t find happiness in the flowers. Madame Forestier offer Mathilde to borrow her diamond necklace, which gave her the emptiness that she needed to feel happy. She had a great night and was on her way home when she went to feel for the necklace but found that it was gone. She started to panic and retraced her steps but couldn’t find it anywhere. She and her husband went from jeweler to jeweler to find the exact necklace and to replace it. They worked and worked until they had paid it off and returned it to Madame Forestier. She was a little annoyed since she had got it a few weeks after the ball. Eventually she admitted to what she had done and was surprised with what she was told. She was informed that the necklace was a fake. That it was costume jewelry. In this story the Madame was an outsider towards Mathilde. Mathilde didn’t know who she was and had taken the necklace to wear for the

In the story "The Necklace" Mathilde borrowed a diamond necklace from her friend to wear it to a party but then lost it and so she sold everything she owned to buy her friend a new one but little did she know that the diamond necklace her friend gave her was a fake. In the story it says "you lost it! but you returned it. I brought you just like it .And

Her pursuit to obtain this apparent life style is what left her empty at the end. After ten years of hard work and misery to pay a replacement diamond necklace, she informs her high class friend, Mme. Forestier, she lost the original necklace the night of the ball. To her surprise she discovers the necklace was fake and not worth the money they spent ten year working to pay. In this story, we observe that Madame Loisel does not notice the sacrificing love her husband has for her and simply sees him as a clerk and nothing more.

In The Necklace, the main character, Mme. Loisel, has a very materialistic view on happiness. She owns all of these nice things, but is not content in her life. When she sees more elegant items that she wants, she becomes more dissatisfied with her life until she can get it. By the end of the story, she becomes poor from having to repay a large amount of debt. In the end, she learns that money does not equal happiness, and that she should have been grateful for the smaller things in her life that made it

Madame Loisel’s husband says, “I’m going to go retrace the whole distance we covered on foot and see if I can’t find it.” While her husband went looking for the necklace, in the cold, she stayed home and thought of where it could be and never offered to go help find the necklace that she lost. When her husband went to the police station, they sent out a missing necklace sign or poster to see if anyone would bring it back and no one did. They wrote a letter to her friend saying they were sorry and will pay her back for the necklace and then they started to work hard to pay back all debt and buy a new

This excessive pride she shows gets her to realize she’ll never be rich like she wants. She will always be middle class. In addition, she runs into the lady she borrowed the jewels form and tells her about how it took her 10 years to pay it off. The author states,” Remember that diamond necklace you loaned me? Well, I lost it.

Madame Loisel is provided with a necklace from Madame Foresteir for the event, since she does not own any jewelry. Wearing the necklace exemplifies that Madame Loisel is disguising her true wealth status, so that she appears to be an upper class person. Furthermore, tangible and extortionate items make her feel happy. When she takes hold of the “superb diamond necklace, her heart started beating with an overwhelming desire. Her hands trembled as she picked it up….She

Money and wealth isn't everything. Madame Loisel from The Necklace by Guy Maupassant has to learn that the hard way. Madame Loisel is a woman who feels entitled to a lavish lifestyle. She is a character who is dissatisfied with her current lifestyle even though she has a caring husband who provides her with everything he can. Madame Loisel is invited to an elaborate party in which she feels she needs a beautiful gown and a diamond necklace. In order for Madame Loisel to attend the party her husband gives her 500 Francs and she borrows a very expensive diamond necklace. After the Loisels attend the party they realize that they have lost the necklace and now their lifestyle must change dramatically so that they can pay to replace the necklace. The Loisels both work very hard for the next ten years to pay back the money they borrowed to replace the necklace. Madame Loisel realizes what a comfortable life she had and how her greed got the best of her. Leading her to a life of misery and hard labor to replace the diamond necklace. Madame Loisel is a complex character because she is both round and dynamic.

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.

“She was one of those pretty and charming girls, born, as if by an accident into a family of clerks” this is what Guy de Maupassant started “The Necklace” off by saying (Maupassant 221). Also, this helps describe the main character and to give the readers a visual of Mathilde Loisel. “The Necklace” is a short story that Mathilde Loisel, the main female character, wants to be a higher class than she really is. Mathilde’s life drastically changes one night after she loses the necklace. Guy de Maupassant incorporates his use of the social class into the short story.

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.

This part shows the theme because she is ashamed to show herself wearing her old, decaying wrap. She walks a bit with her husband and hails a cab away from the party. It's only when she gets home she realizes she has lost a necklace she borrowed from her friend. She has to call her friend to tell her that she broke the clasp of the necklace but in actuality, she was trying to find a replacement for the seemingly expensive necklace.This is another example of pride because instead of admitting that she lost the necklace, she tried to replace it. She and her husband have to pay off the debt they received from buying the replacement necklace. One day, after she pays off the debt, she unexpectedly runs into the lady that let her borrow the necklace in the first place. The lady tells her that the necklace that she lost was a fake, and she went into debt for 10 years for replacing that one necklace. All of this was caused by Madame Loisel not wanting to ruin her pride by wearing an old wrap and not admitting to losing the