Reflection Of Guy De Maupassant

That is to say that in “The Necklace,” Mathilde’s perception of herself as a woman of higher social standing lead to her losing the one thing she had going in life, her true beauty. “It is Madame Loisel 's desire to be part of the upper class which sets the story 's events in motion” (Hatboro and Horsham). Mathilde is described as a beautiful woman who finds her life to be not up to her standards because she is not a part of the higher class. “She had no

Feeling trapped in a life that she does not want or appreciate because she lacks the finer things already presents the negative impact it has on her. Her life is comfortable, yet the appearance of her walls and furniture is not high-class enough for her, damaging not only her happiness but also her own self worth. Another description of Mathilde states, “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” (1). Mathilde not only wants to have money to selfishly better her own social life but in her dreams of being wealthy, she does not seem to want to do anything more impactful with it. Her focus on the material things such as dresses and jewels traps her in a bubble where she can only be the person she aspires to be if she has items that can be acquired with more money. This will never bring her true happiness or fulfillment because even if she does become incredibly wealthy, she will always want more or to be at a higher class. Mathilde’s dreams become especially impossible to reach when she accidentally loses her upscale friend’s supposed diamond necklace and goes into debt buying an identical one to return back to her friend. Mathilde’s life turns into days full of labor trying to earn back the money and the narrator states, “That dreadful debt must be paid.

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.

Thereafter, by learning a lesson from her doings there was a great transformation in Mathilde’s character from beginning to end of the story. After giving the diamond necklace to Forrestier she knew they have to live a “horrible” (5) life “of the needy.” (5) . Thus “with sudden heroism” (5) she decided to repay the debt taken for that necklace and “dismissed their servant, changed their lodgings and rented a garret under the roof.” (5) The woman who valued her youth and beauty the most lost it and became the woman of “impoverished household-strong and hard and rough.” (5) But sometimes she

Madame Loisel had changed for the better in the end. In the beginning, her desires for expensive possessions were proven multiple times by details such as, "She had no gowns, no jewels, nothing. And she loved nothing but that. " Not only did she sought after the high-class lifestyle, she felt entitled to be in it. "Mathilde suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born to enjoy all delicacies and all luxuries."

As Mathilde worked hard to recover the money she owed to the Madame, she finally sees and reflects on the mistakes she made in her previous life. In the process, she internally becomes wiser and truly understands what went on during her former life. After her self-centered and thoughtless behavior vanished over time, she became the woman she always had dreamed of

She finds that the unjust treatment she had was being born into no dowry and no mediocre social status. In this quote, she herself believes that she deserves better, “She suffered endlessly, feeling she was entitled to all the delicacies and luxuries of life” (Maupassant, Page 1). Her views are her own internal conflict as Mathilde lacks a lot of resentment and is full of contentment with her ordinary life and falls under the punishment of poverty at the end. She then uses the mask of perseverance to at least receive a tiny piece of pity or reward from both her friends and higher class society, whom she envied quite lots. Her persona of being a hard-worker puts her under a good light, an aura that makes her look good. This helps lessen the weight of her already existing problem, giving her a bit of hope to keep going at her simplistic

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

The author characterizes the lady as a self-centered one. Frequently, Mathilde complains that she does not have the things she wants, for she was “feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury…” as if she was in the high class. She plunges herself too far into the depths of comparison to the upper class to the point greed is able to blind her away from

12-13). Also, her intense unhappiness cannot be lifted with one party invitation. Another notable behavior on Mathilde is low self-esteem: “She had a rich friend, a comrade from convent days, whom she did not want to see anymore because she suffered so much when she returned home. ”(7, par. 7). The readers notice that Mathilde is an envious person, but she put away her envious behavior and looks for her friend who lends her a necklace.

“She would have liked so much to please, to be envied to be charming, to be sought after” (5). Mathilde’s character is always striving to have others see her outside of her reality, to have someone think of her to be in a higher class of society. De Maupassant uses the class separation to intensify Mathilde’s desires versus reality. She often refers to not having

This shows that Mathilde is born to be luxurious, but instead is born into a low class family. It has been established that Mathilde wants a lot more than what she has. Mathilde fantasizes about wealth. The

The author’s name is Guy de Maupassant. He was born in 1850, and he died in 1893.

Mr. Loisel was obviously excited the day that The Chancellor of Education had invited them to an exquisite dinner. Surely he thought that this was finally a way that he could provide an outlet for Mathilde's deepest desires. Unfortunately, instead of being thrilled as he had predicted, Mathilde acted like a spoiled child, throwing the invitation on the table. "She had no decent dresses, no jewels, nothing. And she loved nothing but these; she believed herself born only for these" (5). She couldn't have been more manipulative than when she began to cry about not having anything to wear. Of course Mr. Loisel suddenly fell into her trap and suddenly decided to give her all of the money in his savings account to buy her a new dress. Most would assume that she'd be satisfied at this point; her husband has just made a huge financial sacrifice for her. However, as time drew near to the night of the party, she became insecure and restless because she thought she would look poor if she didn't have any fancy jewels to wear; she thought she'd look like a beggar. `I'd almost rather not go to the party (30)", she said.

Her social status was very poor they lived in a shack with old outdated furniture and was always depressed and crying about something that was not very bad or important. Mathilde was a pretty girl who worked as a minor store clerk in the Ministry of Education and did not earn much money which she could not buy nice clothes and she was always unhappy. Her social status was poor to medium class and her and her husband were not able to attend nice receptions or balls.She had to barter and borrow a lot of things so she could look decent. The way she was able to go to the reception was she had to borrow a nice dress and some fine jewelry from her best friend.