Necklaces: A Fictional Narrative

In "The Necklace" the authors choice of words, or diction, is very well articulated. I enjoyed this story because the narrator, Guy de Maupassant sets us so much suspense with the tone of the story. Madame Louisel essentailly loses a valuable item, or so she thought, and goes to major extents and even life-deminishing problems to just make it seem like she was not responsible enough to take care of a necklace for a night.

In The Necklace, Madame Loisel was embarrassed by her poverty which made her state of being even worse with her self-centered actions. Characteristics to describe her actions would be materialistic, ungrateful, and unappreciative. Evidences from the story, about these characteristics, are given to support them. Madame Loisel have plenty of traits that describes her, but the three that stood out the most was materialistic, ungrateful, and unappreciative. With a simple, loving, and caring husband didn’t stop her self-centered actions.

At first glance, Chopin’s Story of an Hour (1894) and de Maupassant’s The Necklace (1884), appear to have very little in common. Chopin’s story, as displayed in its title is quite short; while in comparison, de Maupassant tells a much more detailed account of the beleaguered Loisel’s, who must learn from the self-centred Madam Loisel. With de Maupassant’s depiction of his female protagonist as selfish and ungrateful; it is difficult to fathom Chopin, known for her active role in describing woman's oppression in the nineteenth century. Interestingly, Chopin, a realist, did consider de Maupassant to

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.

The Story of an Hour and The Necklace share many similarities and also many differences; both explore the feeling that both wives harbor towards their husbands and the lack of communication that both wives share. In this essay I will discuss the similarities and differences that the two short stories share with regards to communication.

when she hears of her husband’s death. Although she is not stuck as many women would have

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

People who are driven by greed end up focusing on what they do not have instead of being grateful for what they do have. This is relevant in the short story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant because Mathilde Loisel ends up losing everything she owns just because she lets greed drive her decisions and get the best of her. When receiving an invitation to an extravagant ball, she declines because she says she does not have anything nice to wear. In the beginning of the short story she says, “There is nothing more humiliating than looking poor in the middle of a lot of rich women.(Maupassant).” The reader sees how she puts value in possessions and what others think of her. After finding a dress and then borrowing a necklace that she thought

Imagine you lose something very valuable for you. What would you do? This story is located in France, it is about a story of a girl that is not rich but she daydreamed about being rich. One day she got invited to a party so she asked a friend if she could lend her a necklace. When she got home after the party she realizes that she had lost the fashionable necklace.

“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.

One way one’s identity is created is from their reputation. This means his/her strive for positive feedback from others. An example of this is found in Guy De Maupassant’s “The Necklace”. Matilda, one of the main characters in this stage performance, is ungrateful of her belongings and always wants more to just get people to like her.

“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.

Figurative masks varies from one person to the next. For you, it may be pride, however for your neighbor, it could be wealth or tranquility. Since the human population is unimaginably diverse, we all possess distinctive masks, and it can be anything that harbours your true self. The human race uses figurative masks to modify their personas to counteract unjust treatments. I personally use a tough mask as a coping mechanism as this trait or characteristic helps protect and conceal my true self, which ultimately assists me in prevailing unjust treatment that I receive. In the social context of The Necklace, written by Guy de Maupassant, pride and social status are prominent veils that majority of the people wore. Mathilde, the lead character, values this wealthy veil and believes that if she wears that veil, people will not judge her in her social status.

In the short story, “The Necklace,” by Guy de Maupassant the author uses the techniques of characters speech and appearance to characterize Madame Loisel. The use of characters speech and appearance connects to human nature because even though a person might look perfect on the outside does not mean that the person is perfect on the inside. This short story starts with introducing Madame Mathilde Loisel, who is forced to marry a man named Monsieur Loisel. He works at the Department of Education. Monsieur Loisel gets an invitation to attend a party at the Ministry. She explains to her husband Monsieur Loisel that she does not want to go because she has no dress, jewelry, or money. Her husband sells his rifle so that he could buy her a beautiful dress for the party. She has no jewelry, so then she goes to visit her rich friend Madame Jeanne Forestier to borrow some jewelry. Madame Loisel picks a diamond necklace. Therefore, her and her husband attend the party, later in the night Madame Loisel and her husband leave and she realizes that she has lost the diamond necklace. She does not tell Madame Forestier but she tells her that it has broken and it needs to be fixed, Madame Loisel's husband then takes out many loans to pay for a new diamond necklace. Taking out multiple loans cause Madame Loisel and her husband to be is serious debt, after they finally bought the new necklace and soon find out the original necklace was worth less than five hundred dollars. The author directly describes Madame Loisel in the beginning of the story as, “She was one of those pretty and charming girls, born, as if by an accident of fate, into a family of clerks. With no dowry, no prospects, no way of any kind of being met, understood, loved, and married by a man both prosperous and famous, she was finally married to a minor clerk in the Ministry of Education” (Guy de Maupassant 221). However, the author directly describes her at the end of the story as, “Mme. Loisel appeared an old women now. She became heavy, rough, harsh, like one of the poor. Her hair untended, her skirts askew, her hands red, her voice shrill, she even slopped water on her floors and scrubbed them herself” (Guy de Maupassant 227). Madame Loisels looks became

In today's world what we wear and how we present ourselves can say a lot about who we are and the stories we can tell. Without speaking a word to another person someone could decipher many things about me based on a necklace that I wear. My necklace could reveal many different aspects of who I am. it could reveal that I am close with my family. It could also be determined that I value the sentimental value over the monetary value. As a gift from my grandmother I have many personal attachments to this necklace, it will allow people to think certain things about me, and it can reveal a lot about who I am; but there are also things that it doesn't show.