Necklace Quotes In The Necklace

Mathilde never seemed satisfied with what she had. She envied the upper class and felt she should have what they have. “She suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born for all the delicacies and all the luxuries. She suffered from the poverty of her dwelling” (Maupassant). This desire to belong in the upper class caused her only to focus on what she did not have. When her husband surprises her with the invitation to the ball the only thing she can think about is not having the proper dress for the occasion. “She looked at him with an irritated eye, and she said, impatiently: “’And what do you expect me to put on my back?’” (Maupassant). It seemed

“The Necklace” is a short story of a middle-class woman, Mathilde, who borrowed a necklace from a friend to seem

Do you know a materialistic person, who only cares about money? Do you like this person? Usually, people like this are not so friendly, just like Mathilde was. But in this case, Mathilde was able to change, and we can see this by some facts in the text; she was arrogant and materialistic, then became a motivated and comprehensive, and also she was lazy, but in the final she became a very hard worker woman. Mathilde actions and attitudes changes are very complex, but with these two things as support, it is possible to make this change very clear to understand.

Mathilde wanted to be rich and live a luxurious life. She did not just want to be rich but she thought that she deserved to be rich. Before she got married she was living a decent lifestyle,she even had a maid for the house “She suffered endlessly, feeling herself born every delicacy and luxury.” (1). One night Mathilde and her husband got invited to go to a fancy ball. But she did not have any jewelry to wear so she borrowed a necklace from her friend. After the party she realized that the necklace was gone. She and her husband had to go out and buy the same necklace but for thirty six thousand francs. They had to be in debt for more than ten years. One day she decided to tell the woman that she borrowed the necklace from that she lost her original one and this is another one. ‘“Oh my poor Mathilde! But mine was imitation. It was worth at very most five hundred francs!...”’(8). Mathilde and her husband were in debt for most of their lives and lived in poverty. The irony in the story is Mathilde wanted to be very rich but ended up the poorest of the poor and the necklace she lost was imitation and she ended up paying so much more money to replace it than she actually

‘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

Mathilde's daydreaming and longing for a wealthy lifestyle starts to not only affect her, but her friendships and her relationships around her as well. Mathilde's husband is considered a middle class clerk in the Ministry of Education and seems to be perfectly happy with his average lifestyle. Even when things were considered out of his financial reach, Mathilde's husband was always trying everything in his power to please her.

Many times, Madame Loisel’s husband gave up what he wanted just so she would be happy, even though she would never be content with her life. He did this when he said “Let’s see, Mathilde. How much would a suitable outfit cost- one you could wear for other affairs too- something very simple” (Maupassant 211).

She was always dreaming and seeing things as if it was fantasy. “She suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born with all the delicacies and all the luxuries” (Maupassant). The author allows the reader to foreshadow that her ways brings her into a devastation. She had everything she needed: a husband, a nice income, and she even had the looks. She just wanted more. Mathilde didn’t understand how with such great looks why she couldn’t have riches. Even though her husband bought the both of them tickets to a ball, Mathilde still refused to go because she had not one thing to wear. However, when she easily convinces her husband into buying a dress that cost four-hundred francs, even though her husband had other plans to do for the money. Now, she had a dress, but, with greed, she still demanded she needed something else. “It annoys me not to have a jewel, not a single stone, to put on. I shall look like distress. I would almost rather not go to this party” (Maupassant). Maupassant clarified that even though her husband went and bought her a dress, she still wanted something

This doesn’t mean that she doesn’t still feel society’s norms still working on her. She worked hard, “But sometimes… she sat down near the window, and she dreamed of that evening so long ago, of that party, where she had been so beautiful and so admired” (Maupassant 191). Even though social norms was what got Mathilde into debt in the first place she still dreams of it because it is hard to let go of something so engrained into her. Her daydreams show that even though she was able to overcome society’s norms in her life, they still had a grip on Mathilde’s life. However it was not to the extent that it was before. Where she had been truly ungrateful for wat she had and tried so hard to mover herself up, it was now no more than a daydream of what a nice evening she had. The feeling not so much greed, but more reminiscent of what she had been able to

Greed, dishonesty, and no satisfaction are character traits that ultimately changed Mathilde’s life. Greed is one of the character traits that described Mathilde. She wanted to be like everyone else in society instead of being herself. “She suffered constantly, feeling that all the attributes of gracious life, every luxury, should rightly have been hers.”

While her husband is only a lowly clerk in the Ministry of Education, he can afford to buy her modest things, and he appreciates the modest and simple. Rather than appreciate her modest life, Mathilde dreams of a world where she is dripping jewels and eating off fancy china. She has a negative outlook on her life and expresses the sorrow she feels for herself. Her husband wants a better life for them and tries to give her the best he has, money wise, but Mathilde still longs for more. She thinks that beauty and power only come from wealth and status; where wealth is money and expensive objects and jewelry. Her thought process was out of touch from her peers thinking at the time period. Elaborate jewels, decorations, and clothes were how people showed off wealth and

This quote shows that Mathilde wishes and thirsts for the materials that belong to those of a higher class. She is seen despairing over her modest life in her small, simple apartment. It is well known that she has everything she needs, but the only way to make her happy is by

Mathilde represents the innate human nature in us all. We are all presented with opportunities and choices in our daily lives that have the ability to enhance or corrupt us. When she chose to demand and expect things from her husband that was out of their means, she possibly did not realize the cataclysmic chain of events that would result. Their decision to deceive their friend with the replicated necklace sealed the downward spiral of their economic reality. But the small daily decisions of living in her fanciful imaginings were the first small wrong choices she made that started the whole incident. The drab beginnings of her and her husband’s life could have developed into nicer things if she would have harnessed and controlled the seeds

At the beginning of the story, Mathilde is portrayed as a bitter woman who thinks she is entitled to a more luxurious life. While eating dinner, Mathilde thinks to herself: “She had no dresses, no jewels, nothing. And she loved nothing but that; she felt made for that. She would so have liked to please, to be envied, to be charming, to be sought after” (68). In this instance, Mathilde cannot focus on what she is currently involved in because she is so obsessed with living a higher life. The reader infers that the consumables of the upper class is consuming her thoughts. One evening, after sulking to herself, as usual, her husband comes home with an invitation to a party which she reacts to questionably: “Instead of being delighted, as her husband hoped, she threw the invitation on the table with disdain, murmuring: ‘What do you want me to do with that’” (69)? As the readers sees,

To show that Mathilde is dissatisfied with her ordinary life, the author mentions “She grieved over the shabbiness of her apartment, the dinginess of the walls, the worn-out appearance of the chairs, the ugliness of the draperies” (Maupassant 198). This quote tells the reader that Madame Loisel has many complaints about her lifestyle as well as her