The Necklace By Guy De Maupassant

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

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."

First of all it’s extremely ironic that she never knew that it was a fake necklace until she had bought the real one. In paragraph 89 it states “ Madame Loisel cam to the know the ghastly life of abject poverty. From the very first she played her part heroically. This fearful debt must be paid off. She would pay it. The servant was dismissed.They changed their flat , they took a garret under the roof.

Beautiful Mathlide Loisel is an unsatisfied wife that lives a life that she most brutally hates. Her life consists of a loving husband and a comfortable home, but she still seems to be totally unhappy, “She was a simple person without the money to dress well, but she was as unhappy as if she had gone through bankruptcy, for a woman have neither rank nor race”(Maupassant 7). Loisel 's sorrow over wealth and fancy things puts a constant pain on her husband. In Guy de Maupassant short story “The Necklace,” Mathlide Loisel goes from being a materialistic, dishonest woman to becoming an honest, hard-working woman.

Through the story, Madame Loisel changes by realizing how much the necklace is and does the right thing and buys her a new one but this choice has a consequence. The text said, “It was worth forty thousand”. She started to figure out that they weren't going to find the necklace so she decided to buy a forty thousand dollar necklace but really it was only 50 dollars. I think he changes since, in the beginning, he is nice to the old man but then changed when he noticed his eye. On page 1 it said, “I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him”. This means he was nice but then decided to kill him because he didn’t like his eye. Because the characters change we are able to learn and change our actions before we make the same

Later in the text, Loisel borrows a diamond necklace from her friend to wear to a party. When the party ends Loisel notices she no longer possesses the seemingly expensive necklace. She is terrified by the thought of having to pay for the necklace. Loisel and her husband work their whole lives to pay for a replacement then try to give it back to the owner. The passage states, “oh, my poor Mathilde!

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.

Many people are often encouraged since youth to be honest, even when you have broken or lost something. Mme. Louise's goes against this encouragement after she loses a necklace that had been loaned to her. This difficult scenario occurs in Guy De Maupassant's short story “The Necklace.” Mme. Loisel is a selfish and materialistic yet charming young woman who yearns for a more lavish life. She is invited to a ball, and in order to feel like she belongs among the rich, is loaned a necklace from a friend. At the dance, she loses the necklace and is forced to work 10 years of difficult labor to pay it off, only to discover after several years that it was merely paste. Mme. Loisel causes her own downfall because she was selfish, envious and materialistic.

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.

Throughout the story Madame Loisel's husband tried to get her what she wanted and tried to keep her happy even if it meant he would struggle . Of course Madame Loisel is being her she wanted more and was greedy. Her life was grey and so would her future.

Loisel sees that his wife wishes to be with the wealthy and so he came home to her one time with a large envelope in his hand that said “The Minister of Public Instruction and Mme. Georges Ramponneau request the honor of M. and Mme. Loisel’s company at the palace of the Ministry on Monday evening, January eighteenth” (600) thinking it would cheer up her wife but instead it was almost as if she felt insulted by it. Mathilde went on about how she had nothing to wear to the ball so M. Loisel asked her “… How much would it cost, a suitable dress which you could use on other occasions. Something very simple?”

The following quote explains how she only cares about materialistic things. “And these were the only things that she loved; felt she was made for them” (Maupassant 1). M.Loisel and Mme. Loisel are dynamic characters as they try to pay off their debts, starting off in middle class and ending up even poorer with no luxuries. M.Loisel is a giving person, as he tends to the needs and wants of his wife.

When her husband and she was invited to a dance all she could think about was how she has to get a beautiful dress and jewelry, therefore she bought a beautiful dress with the four hundred francs her husband gave her, and she went to her friends house, Mme. Forestier, to borrow a necklace. All she wanted was to have everything she needs to be the beguiling by the dance and didn’t even care to praise her husband for his position in his career. At the end of the dance Mme. Loisel lost Mme. Forestier’s necklace that she borrowed. She and her husband rummaged, by tracing their steps but they couldn’t find it, therefore they decided to buy a very expensive necklace looking as the lavish one she borrowed. When ten years past after paying back her debts for losing Mme. Forestier necklace, she now looked like an old woman. Her hair was badly done, her skirts were awry, her hands were red. Some days to take a break of work she will sit near her window and think of the dance when she was beautiful and admired. This proves that Mme. Loisel still hadn't changed because her envy would take over her and she would become depressed and sad because she doesn’t have a luxurious life. Her envious brought her real misfortune because

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.

In the first place, Mathilde Loisel from “The Necklace”, a woman who undoubtedly was a victim of her envy and ambition. Mrs. Loisel was a woman who lived in a poor place who never settled with what she had. As a result, her envy led her to lose the little things that she owns. Mrs. Loisel, lost her life in things she thought were more important. Mr. Loisel was confused to believe that luxury and wealth could bring happiness into her life. To which she was wrong and ended up losing her youth and strength, trying to pay something which was fake.