Similarities Between The Necklace And The Chaser

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.

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” develops the theme of irony through Madame Loisel’s constant need for money and jewels. The first example of irony is when she borrows the necklace to appear wealthy, then loses all her wealth. When Madame Loisel begins to worry about how she will appear to the other wealthy people, her husband tells her to go borrow jewelry from her friend, Madame Forestier (Maupassant 4). The very

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.

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

“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.

In “The Necklace”, Guy de Maupassant uses different literary elements to help the reader connect to and better understand the story and characters. Three literary elements that Guy de Maupassant uses in the story are dramatic irony, where Mme. Loisel manipulates her husband to get her a dress for the party invitation, irony, where Mme. Loisel spends so much time not caring about anyone and trying to seem wealthy and it all just turns into her working for ten years being very poor, and finally, imagery, where Guy de Maupassant uses descriptive words to bring images to your mind to help you better understand and connect to the story. For a second, imagine that you saw a pair of shoes that you really liked and you felt like you actually needed them to live, but you did not have enough money to buy them. Would you just walk away, or get in debt, or would you try to steal them? Everyone can be greedy and selfish, but you should not let that guide you in your decisions and actions, instead think about why you want them and if you really needed them. Mme. Loisel just wanted to look wealthy, but she had a lot of good things in her life like her faithful husband, her beauty, and food on the table, but she threw it away because of her

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.

Madame Loisel is provided with a necklace from Madame Foresteir for the event, since she does not own any jewelry. Wearing the necklace exemplifies that Madame Loisel is disguising her true wealth status, so that she appears to be an upper class person. Furthermore, tangible and extortionate items make her feel happy. When she takes hold of the “superb diamond necklace, her heart started beating with an overwhelming desire. Her hands trembled as she picked it up….She

The short story “The Necklace” is a very inspiring and it depicts reality. It is about a pretty woman (Madame Mathilde) of low social status that feels unsatisfied with her husband and her life. When she was little, she always imagined herself in a high social position with wonderful jewels. Her husband to pleased her, bought her tickets to go to a social event and used his savings to buy her a fancy dress. However, she wasn’t happy because she didn’t have any jewelry to wear and no money to buy anything. Her husband tells her to borrow a necklace from her friend but than she lost it. The irony of this story is that Madame Mathilde and her husband gave up so much of their lives to pay for the necklace that they borrowed and lost because it

The cosmic irony in the necklace begins with Madame Loisel who was born into a family of commoners and was charming and lovely. She has no chance of meeting a rich man to take her away from her commoners lifestyle. She was married off to a another commoner and she was to dress simple and not fancy because it is not her lifestyle to dress fancy. The irony begins to set in when she and her husband are invited to this party by The Minister of Education and his wife, Madame Georges Ramponneau. Instead of being thrilled, as her husband had hoped, she forcefully threw the invitation onto the table saying, “What do you want me to do with this?” “But darling,I thought you’d be pleased. You never go out,and tis really special occasion…”, is where she is upset to go because she has nothing nice to wear to this party with important guests going to be there (173). She is weary about going to this party because she isn't of the richest quota of the community. She was a lady with no richest married to a commoner. She finally decided to go to the party and she realized she doesn't have a dress or anything to wear then she asked one of her friends if she has anything she can borrow to wear to the party and she lets her borrow a necklace. She began to worry about what she will have to wear and if she has the money to buy anything to wear for her and her husband. Her husband offers her four hundred francs to buy a fancy dress for her to wear to the party. Then, she says, “I’m upset because i haven’t a single piece of jewelry or a gemstone to wear….(174). She calls one of her friends and ask if she could borrow a necklace from her and she says yes.

This part shows the theme because she is ashamed to show herself wearing her old, decaying wrap. She walks a bit with her husband and hails a cab away from the party. It's only when she gets home she realizes she has lost a necklace she borrowed from her friend. She has to call her friend to tell her that she broke the clasp of the necklace but in actuality, she was trying to find a replacement for the seemingly expensive necklace.This is another example of pride because instead of admitting that she lost the necklace, she tried to replace it. She and her husband have to pay off the debt they received from buying the replacement necklace. One day, after she pays off the debt, she unexpectedly runs into the lady that let her borrow the necklace in the first place. The lady tells her that the necklace that she lost was a fake, and she went into debt for 10 years for replacing that one necklace. All of this was caused by Madame Loisel not wanting to ruin her pride by wearing an old wrap and not admitting to losing the

In “The Necklace”, Guy de Maupassaut uses the irony with the necklace to criticize Madame Loisel’s need to make a false impression and her equally false desires. Madame Loisel shows her desire for everything throughout this short story.  Guy de Maupassant uses an angry tone showing the reader he disapproves of Madame Loisel actions and need for attention. In the beginning of this short story, Guy describes Madame Loisel as “one of those pretty and charming girls born” (CITATION). Guy de Maupassant immediately lets the reader know Madame Loisel is incredibly beautiful. Her husband even says “Why the dress you go to theatre in. It looks very nice to me” (CITATION), yet Madame Loisel does not care.  Madame Loisel needs to make a false impression

“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.

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.