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She wants wealth and good social status that she does not and can not have. She feels depressed every time she thinks about wealth or visits her "rich friend [Mrs. Forrestier], a comrade from convent days, whom she did not want to see anymore because she suffered so much

In “The Necklace”, Mathilde Loisel is a woman who cannot tolerate her lower-class status, believing “herself born for every delicacy and luxury”(82). Mathilde’s vain materialistic goals, make her bitter and unhappy. The main point of irony in the story is the fact that Mathilde borrows the necklace and looses it. The necklace was very expensive, or so she thought, so she ended up in poverty

The necklace serves as a symbol for greed. When Mathilda Loisel loses the necklace that she believed was worth forty thousand francs, she desperately retraces her steps and gets her husband to help her find it as well. It ends up taking ten years to pay off the debt. The ten years were hard on Mathilda Loisel and her husband, and Maupassant told the reader that she “looked old now… with hair half combed, with skirts award, and reddened hands” (6). However, even after the long ten years of manual labor all because she lost the necklace, she “sat down near the window and though of that evening at the ball so long ago, when she has been so beautiful and so admired” (6). The necklace symbolizes that when greed controls emotions and decisions, it never leads to good results.

She thinks that because her friend is rich and beautiful, that her material items would extend with that wealth. Instead, it shows Madame that even the richest of people do not always have to have genuine items. Madame realizes that she does have fun at the party even if she is not wearing all authentic things, the opposite of what she thinks she is wearing. A third ironic happening, is when she has been working to pay off the money for the necklace for a decade. Madame clearly admits to her friend on page 196 how she loses the necklace, and has been paying it back for ten years. As someone is reading the story, they will find it silly how Mme. is working for something when she is usually having people, mostly her husband, do things for her. Instead, she is working to pay off the money that she has spent on a replacement necklace. The turnout of the story changes Madame’s views on how silly, textile items, are not always needed for someone to be happy.

When her husband gave her the invitation to the ball, which was a perfect place to meet the rich people, Mathilde got mad and cried. It was a shame since she has nothing to wear. Mr Loisel gave his money to Mathilde and she got an elegance dress. But she didn’t stop and wanted to have jewels. Mathilde met her friend, Madame Forestier and chose an gorgeous diamond necklace. Of course, she became the prettiest woman in the ball, with everyone stared at her, as if she was the most attractive woman ever. She felt fascinated, just like her dream came true. But then a tragic came to her. She lost the necklace! Mathilde and her husband tried to find the necklace, but they found nothing. Mathilde lost her hope and had aged five years. The Loisels finally decided to replace the diamonds for 36 000 Francs, spent all of their money and accepted to pay the debts. It was such an unfortunate situation. After Mathilde lost the necklace, she was described as “ And, clad like a poor woman, she went to the fruiterer, to the grocer, to the butcher, a basket on her arm, haggling, insulted, fighting for every wretched halfpenny of her money”. (Maupassant 8). The family was suffering from poverty and have to pay the debts continuously. Mathilde changed immediately and did everything. They have worked so hard to earn every single penny for their life, to survive and pay all those debts. The third person limited

They focus more on working and making money rather than living their lives. By focusing only on work, people are unhappy and are “frowning,” according to the quotation above. If they live their lives instead, they might smile and actually be truly happy. The ten years of hard work Madame Loisel undertakes is what ends up changing her. During those ten years, “Loisel comes to know the ghastly life of the poverty-stricken,” working all the household jobs while her husband, works arduously in the evenings, doing multiple jobs at once.

He tried his best to help her find it and said “I’ll retrace out steps on foot’ he said, ‘to see if I can find it” (Maupassant 214). However, even after all his help for her, Madame Loisel still did not acknowledge him one bit which makes it obvious that she is very foolish. Although one may oppose to this and say Madame Loisel’s husband made things worse when he didn’t encourage her to tell her friend the truth about losing the necklace, he still wasn’t at fault that she lost her friends

Essay Title Life is full of opportunities to help others by foregoing something to help and adjust a situation. Life is precious and it’s exceedingly essential to acknowledge the importance of appreciating life for what it is and not taking it for granted. In the story The Necklace the character Monsieur Loisel is ideally a simple man who is devoted to his wife Mathilde Loisel, who constantly struggles with feelings of displeasure with her lifestyle. In the story The Man to Send Rain Clouds the character Leon is the grandson of Teofilo’s whom he finds dead and is able to construct a service integrating his Native American traditions with Christianity. Both of these men illustrate the connection of letting go of something for the sake of

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.

The common ground that Madame Loisel and Della share is that they are very emotional when reminded of their wealth status. In “The Necklace” Madame Loisel starts to tear up at the sight of M. and Mme. Ramponneau’s invitation to an evening reception. Madame Loisel is troubled because

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

Loisel didn't have the heart or guts to tell her friend about the misfortune she has encountered instead she goes to buy a diamond necklace in place of the old one for Mme. Forestier. In later years Mme. Loisel Is still working to pay off the luxurious necklace when she discovers some comforting but disappointing news that the necklace was nothing more than “paste” better known as costume jewelry, or junk jewelry. this is shown in the last three lines of the text on page 34 which directly states, “ Oh, my poor Mathilde. But mine was only paste. Why at most it was worth only five hundred francs.” This journey that all started with a selfish remark got Mme.Loisel to open her eyes quite a bit at the mess she made for herself. In lines 16-18 on page 34 states, “I brought you another just like it. And we've been paying for it for years now. You can imagine that wasn't easy for us who had nothing.” Mme.Loisel expresses through these lines the unsettling repercussions she had to face because of her self-regarding and greedy

Maupassant showed that the necklace was definitely not worth the ruination that it caused the Loisels. The poverty and want that was brought about by the necessity to repay the loans taken out to pay for the replacement could have been avoided. If Mathilde had not been so foolish as to attempt to be what she was not, rich, or had told her friend the truth, then she would have saved herself and her husband from the grief and ruin it caused. Guy de Maupassant showed that the necklace not only represented the greed, ruin, and regret of a woman, but it also symbolized the crushed hopes of a woman who wanted too much from life. Hopefully, most people are happy with what life has bestowed upon the. If not, they should not attempt to gain material possessions that will only bring ruin and suffering instead of love and happiness.

Mme. Loisel Many people don't appreciate what they have until it is too late. In this fictional short story called “The Necklace” Guy Maupassant shows how Mme. Loisel will learn to be appreciative.

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.