Similarities Between The Necklace And The Gift Of The Magi

Madame Loisel does not even realize it is Mathilde for her beauty has waned beyond recognition. Since the necklace has been replaced and finally paid off, Mathilde ultimately tells Madame Loisel about the fateful night when Mathilde lost the prized necklace. It is then that Madame Loisel confesses that the “prized” necklace was never so much a prize after all. Mathilde and her husband had spent the last 10 years working as relentlessly as they possibly could to pay for a necklace that had originally been a

It turned out that her friend’s necklace was made of paste and was only worth “five hundred francs at most” (Maupassant 6) Mine. Loisel was so envious of the wealthy that she ended up working for 10 years when she really didn’t need to. If you lost somethings of a friend’s you would tell them. Therefore, Mine. Loisel was so proud of herself that she was unwilling to admit to losing her friend’s

If one is not thankful for what they have, their life will be about nothing but regret. When life is all about regret, it is pointless to live. In The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant, a lower class woman named Madame Loisel is always focused on her status, money, and popularity. When she gets invited to a dance, her and her husband do whatever they can to make her happy with her appearance. To do so, Madame Loisel asks her upper-class friend Madame Forestier to borrow an astonishing necklace like no other.

Money can definitely equal happiness as seen in "The Necklace", my personal life, and in the world today.

Have you ever been greedy, and wanted something that you would have done anything to get? Although it is fine to want something, sometimes it can rule your thoughts and actions and you do things that are not right and may hurt other people. In “The Necklace”, the story is mainly about a woman who longs to have been born into a better life. She consistently complains and goes to extreme lengths to look wealthy, and because of her selfishness, it results in her and her husband having to give up all they have and spend their life working. In The Necklace, author Guy de Maupassant uses dramatic irony, irony, and imagery, to communicate the theme of greed and what that leads to.

Throughout her years of paying the debt of the necklace she borrowed from her friend, "She came to know what heavy housework meant and the odious cares of the kitchen.” She no longer looked beautiful as if she was one of the upper class women, she now looked old, and wasted “And, dressed like a woman of the people, she went to the fruiterer, the grocer, the butcher, her basket on her arm, bargaining, insulted, defending her miserable money sou by sou.” This went on for ten years, until one day the debt is paid off, after years of hard work, the Loisels no longer have a debt to pay, and can now go back to their previous

Money would of made the loisel’s happy in the story the necklace, because Mrs loisel wasn't happy because she was not rich. When she and her husband got invited to the ball she was upset. Mr loisel was confused because he was trying to make her happy but she got mad, because she did not have anything to wear and did not wanna go and humiliate herself because she was not rich. So her husband bought her a nice dress with the money he saved up for a rifle. Now she was upset because she did not have jewelry to wear so she went to her friend to ask her. When her friend lends her the necklace it looked really expensive, so she was happy

Money definitely equals happiness as seen in “The Necklace” and in my own personal life. It could help with many conflicts.

In the story “The Necklace” written by Guy de Maupassant, Madame Loisel’s attitude and perspective on life changes for the good. At the beginning of the story she is very needy and ungrateful, “She had no evening clothes, no jewels, nothing. But those were the things she wanted: she felt that was the kind of life for her” (Maupassant 226). Madame Loisel “burst out weeping” when she was informed they were attending an evening event without a nice dress to wear (227). She was handed 400 francs that her husband was saving for a rifle. She was to buy a nice dress for the event. Although she buys an evening dress, she still thought she looked to poor to attend the event. She had asked to borrow a necklace from a friend, but she lost it later that

The author of The Necklace demonstrates Mme Loisel ‘s dissatisfaction with her life through tone and mood early on in the story. In the passage on page 20 the author writes, “she grieved incessantly, feeling that she had been born for all the little niceties and luxuries

Even though she finally had the attention of the upper class, she still did not feel as if she belonged with the other women in that class. This highlights how many people may have what they want, but they will never be satisfied. After the event is over and the couple returns to their apartment, Loisel discovers that she has lost the necklace on the way home. After searching for a week, they neither see nor hear anything and decide that they need to go buy a new one to replace the old one. After spending “thirty-six thousand” francs, the couple put themselves into immense debt because Madame Loisel wanted to live above her class for one night (177). Because the couple signed themselves up for a lifetime of debt, they had to sell of any good part of their life, and “Madame Loisel came to know the life of the poor” (177). Because she was not content with her life, Madame Loisel found herself with a debt that resulted in her falling to a lower class. Although this may seem to be the end of the ordeal, Loisel finds out that the necklace was only worth about five hundred francs- much less than the thirty six thousand they paid for the replacement. This is where the ironic element of the story is revealed to the reader showing that people should be content with their own lifestyle because it could be

The main character in “The necklace” is a greedy woman named Mathilde Loisel; she cares the finer things in life although she couldn’t afford them. From the beginning is shown as megalomaniac. She believes that “all things delicate and luxurious [were] her birth right”. (Guy de Maupassant 1884) Mrs. Loisel was embarrassed to let her friend know that she lost her necklace, all

If Mathilde did not question why her friend would lend her such a pricey necklace, she would not have felt as glamorous because the worth of that necklace in a sense also determined her worth: a fake and a paste. She loses the diamond necklace and both Mathilde and her husband are filled with fear. They both know they are financially unable to replace it, so instead she lies to buy them more time to look for it. Instead of being honest and owning up to their mistake, they avoided the

You would think by this point Mathilde would be happy with buying an expensive dress and being able to attend a party with all the rich people she fantasizes about everyday. But of course, this is not the case. Again she asks for more. We then see another interaction between her and her husband where she asks for jewels to go with the dress, and he doesn’t understand the need. By this point, Mr Loisel finally gets a little upset with Mathilde's incessant whining and shouts, “How stupid you are! … Go and see your friend Madame Forestier and ask her to lend you some jewels. You know her well enough for that.” (4). Mathilde agrees and happily goes to ask for the jewels. If only Mathilde had understood her husband’s hint that she didn’t need the jewels, her life may have remained the same.

In the story The Necklace, Madame Loisel and her husband were poor and not wealthy. But Madame Loisel did not enjoy being poor and wanted to live a rich and wealthy lifestyle. While her husband did not mind living the poor lifestyle they lived and did not care if they were rich or not. In the story her husband got both of them an invitation to a party and needed a nice outfit and jewels to wear but Madame Loisel had neither. So they both decided to borrow some of Madame Forestier’s jewels. They lost the necklace before they could return it to Madame Forestier and decided to buy a real diamond necklace for 30,000 francs (which they could not afford) instead of confessing to