Madame Lucy's Tale

Lucy has been made fun of for her new looks after surgery, and has been getting some peer influences to help her. In the book Aautobiography of a Fface, by Lucy Grealy, Lucy gets cancer suddenly. The book In the book it is about a nine year old girl that has cancer in her jaw. She must go to places to get chemo treatment to try and get rid of the cancer. Lucy Grealy develops the theme to be more self confident using tone, symbolism, and characterization.

In the story "The Necklace", we learn about an envious middle class woman named Mme. Loisel who is "ashamed of her social standing" and constantly dreams about a life full of riches that she would never have despite how charming and beautiful she was. She also shows her

Her husband brought home invitations for a fancy ball hoping to please his wife, but instead she got upset because she didn’t have anything to wear to the ball. “There is nothing worse than to look poverty stricken among rich women.” He ends up buying her a dress and she borrowed a diamond necklace from a friend. They go to the party and she is finally happy, until later she discovers she lost her friends necklace. Instead of going to her friend and telling the truth, the main character and her husband go buy a fancy diamond necklace to replace it, which puts them in debt for ten years, they have to give up everything and work extremely hard to pay off the money.

This story is also similar to the first story in the main point and different in the details. This story is written in third person story telling style. The main character is a pretty and charming girl whose name is Madame Mathilde Loisel. Her family including her husband are clerks which means she is most likely to be from a middle class family although the narrator says "She suffered from poverty of her dwelling, from the wretched look of the walls, from the worn-out chairs, from the ugliness of the curtains" (346). It is also mentioned in the story that she dresses plainly and was unhappy from her situation (346). One day, her husband came home with an invitation cared in his hand and gave it to her. After opening the card, she found out that the invitation was to a formal party from the Ministry of Education where husband works. Her husband thought that this invitation would make her happy because she never goes out. However, she became angry and cried. She threw it at him and told him "What do you want me to do with that?" (346). She probably cried because that it was good chance to have fun but she has no dresses nor jewels. He felt bad for her and decided to give her from his saving money to buy her a nice simple dress for about four hundred francs. Even though they got the dress, she was still not comfortable with wearing the dress without jewels. He suggested to her to wear natural flowers which

You're walking around your house one day and you realize how shabby it is, you also realize the color is beginning to diminish because it’s very old, so you start noticing all the things you can’t afford and don’t have, like fancy dresses. Noticing all of these things eventually produces an anger and sadness inside of you that will drive you to make bad decisions and eventually cause you to get involved in a conflict that will seem unescapable, then to only find out that this conflict was meaningless, this is precisely what happens to Madame Loisel in the story “ The Necklace” by Edgar Allen Poe. When Madame Loisel does this she begins to show very negative signs like consistent complaining and ungratefulness for anything that she deems “poor”. Without a doubt though, these horrid traits eventually diminished when her consistent complaining and begging got her a false necklace she would eventually lose and have to pay in debt, which made her work for the things she wanted. Our beloved Madame Loisel also had her moments of extreme euphoria that even made me feel joyous too, this extreme euphoria occurs when she finally got the ability to get her hands on a fancy dress and a very deceiving jewel necklace. In Conclusion, this story is mainly about Madame Loisel a woman with an attitude of a spoiled brat that learns a lesson the hard way.

Over ten years Madame Loisel's perspective and attitude about life changed while repaying the debt of the expensive necklace. In the beginning it says, “When dining at the round table, it was covered for the third day with the same cloth” (Maupassant 226). That meant that she didn’t like doing chores if it was the same tablecloth. It says, “She washed the dishes, wearing down her shell-pink nails scouring the grease from pots and pans; she scrubbed dirty linen, shirts, and cleaning rags which she hung out to dry; she took the garbage down to the street each morning and brought water up, stopping on each landing to get her breath” (231). That was very different to the beginning of the story. This was ironic because at the beginning

Lucy Note was sitting in her house and looking through her photos when she saw a picture of her in the hospital and smiled. She was wearing a hideous white hospital gown that had tiny blue polka-dots covering it, stitches bridging across her left eyebrow, and her blond hair was up in a messy bun; but despite that, she had a big smile stretching across her face, chocolate on her chin, and you could see the happiness in her brown eyes. If you looked close enough at the photo, you can clearly see the source of her happiness: a box of chocolates in her lap, flowers sitting on the table next to her bed, and balloons on the other side of her bed. The night before the picture, she was seventeen years old and speeding down the street

Around the world, values are expressed differently. Some people think that life is about the little things that make them happy. Others feel the opposite way and that expenses are the way to live. In Guy de Maupassant’s short story, “The Necklace”, he develops a character, Madame Loisel, who illustrates her different style of assessments. Madame Loisel, a beautiful woman, lives in a wonderful home with all the necessary supplies needed to live. However, she is very unhappy with her life. She feels she deserves a much more expensive and materialistic life than what she has. After pitying herself for not being the richest of her friends, she goes out and borrows a beautiful necklace from an ally. But as she

Have you ever been drawn to materialistic items or dwelled in the past? In the story "The Necklace", written by Guy de Masspaunt, the main character expresses these traits. Her name is Mme. Loisel and she is a lower class housewife who dreams of wealth. Throughout the story she struggles to look to the future for guidance.

Now consider the role of Mathilde Loisel in “The Necklace”. She constantly grieves about her simple life and fantasizes about extravagant life style with rich people and food surrounding her. Her husband is a simple man and is satisfied with his life. He appreciates her for the food which is cooked and never complains. Being in the Ministry of Education their lifestyle is modest. Mathilde is not satisfied on the other hand even when her husband proudly announces that they have been invited at a formal party held by the Ministry of Education. The irony in the story is more or less the same with regard to the female characters. Mathilde cries and gets her prize in the form of a dress but she is never satisfied. She wants jewelry as well. The necklace that she borrows from Madame Forestier teaches her a lesson of life. Since she is not familiar with the real jewelry she picks the cheapest one from her collection and wears it to the party why she loses it. Upon not finding the jewelry her husband takes the pain of selling everything out just to purchase an identical necklace worth 40,000 francs which leaves them poverty stricken for the next ten years during which her husband does three jobs and

Lucy Heartfilia paced around her barren room. Her father had told her to stay inside and set guards outside to door to make sure she wouldn't leave. She was used to these kind of things happening, her father was way too protective. Sure, she was the only heir to the throne of Fiore and there were bound to be people come after her, but all the guards were highly trained. Weren't they enough to protect one princess?

“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.

But the moral can be that wealth just keeps you wanting more until you ruin yourself, while poverty teaches appreciation. “Maupassant seems (http:// www.shvoong.com) to be reinforcing on the fact that shows your true selves to others and don’t indulge in things that are beyond your capacity or reach. It is not money or high status that brings you respect but your good work and good name in society that heightens you in people’s estimation. And borrowing is never a good habit” (http:// www.shvoong.com). The action of the story begins when M.Loisel, antagonist, brings home an invitation to a reception. The young couple squabbles about attending the reception. Here we see the conflict of man vs. man (husband vs. wife). This often happens with young married couples. Finally, M.Loisel offers to buy his wife a dress to wear to the event. After, Mme. Loisel gets the dress but complains that she does not have any jewels to wear with her dress. M.Loisel tells his wife, “My, but you’re silly” trying to assure that she was beautiful without a fancy dress or jewels (Clugston, 2010). At this point we witness another conflict, man vs. society. It is the idea of Mme. Loisel seeing herself to poor to attend a reception with the affluent citizens of upper society. Mme. Loisel then borrows a beautiful diamond necklace from a friend, Mme. Forester. Now she has the life of upper society, which

Mathilde Loisel was a women who didn’t appreciate much, but there was one thing that she appreciated a lot which were luxuries. Mathilde was one of those people that did not care for love, happiness, or health but more so cared for clothes, jewels, and riches. One night Mathilde wore her friend's diamond neckless, and as she was very poor she felt like a queen wearing it. However, later that night she checked her neck and that diamond neckless had disappeared! She tried to find the neckless for over a week but after that she could only replace the necklace. Mathilde had to come up with 40,000 francs but because she was poor she had to take loans and scratch up all the money from her husband, from her families and from her husband's family. When they came up with the money she bought the neckless and gave it to her friend. It took Mathilde ten years to pay all the loans back, all the hard work had made her age quite harshly and no longer cared what people thought of her and did not fancy nice things rather she fancied things that mattered. After that time she says her friend again she talked to her and her friend explained to Mathilde that her neckless was made out of paste and cost no more than 500 francs. After I read this short story I was set off not knowing what to think, but after time I believed that she did get what she deserved because she cared for material over people, she cared more what people thought than everything, and did not care for health, love, or

Are all the luxuries in the world worth destroying the peace and happiness of the family? Revolving one’s life around money can make or break the love and relationships of life which sometimes can take a lifetime to acquire. The Necklace is set in 1884 in Paris, France (Roberts and Zweig 6; 2). The story mainly consists of a family, which is about a husband, who works in the ministry of education and a stay at home wife named Mathilde Loisel. The story is mainly about the Mathilde, the wife who is determined to achieve all the comforts of life against the love of her husband, who risked his vacation money to buy his wife a dress for a one night party that she will never use again. In Guy de