The Necklace By Guy De Maupassant

The necklace was only worth 500 francs. When Mathilde sees Madame Forestier, she walks up to her and starts to tell her about the necklace. Mathilde explains “‘ And for the last ten years we have been paying for it”’(8) The it Mathilde was talking about was the necklace. Then Madame Forestier replies “‘ It was worth at very most five hundred francs”’ This must be devastating because Mathilde worked for something that was 36,000 francs, to only know she had to pay 500 francs. Therefore situational irony is used to serve justice in Guy de Maupassant’s “The

In Guy de Maupassant’s story the necklace, Madame Loisel’s is a women in the middle class who’s unsatisfied with her lifestyle and envies the upper class lifestyle. Her personality takes her through a irony filled roller coaster throughout the story. The story shows three different types of irony in the story which are verbal, situational, and dramatic.

Within the necklace there is multiple ironic things that happen. The three main ironic things are when she had bought a real necklace, the other necklace was fake and she had never know that it was fake, also when they search her dress to look for the necklace to look for it, and she knows that she was not the one who had sold the necklace.

The irony In the necklace is when she lost the necklace she did not tell the owner that she lost it. so she worked numerous years to buy her a new to only realize the original

But mine was imitation. It was worth at the very most five hundred francs!...” This shows situational irony because all that time her necklace was fake. Irony portrays the theme by telling a moral or lesson.

The short story“The Necklace” by Gui de Maupassant follows Madame Loisel and her husband who are living in the middle-class during the rise of the middle class in Paris, France.There are many different examples of irony throughout the short story, demonstrating Maupassant's talent at commenting on the society in which he was immersed in. The theme of “The Necklace” is revealed through the character Madame Loisel, irony, and symbolism.

Using literary devices like imagery, diction, and point of view, the author characterizes Madame Loisel as remorseful and desperate, it helps the reader understand how regretful and weary Madame Loisel is after carelessly losing her friend’s necklace after a long-lasting night. “The Necklace” is written in the point of view of third person omniscient. This point of view allows the reader to view the story from many different perspectives, enabling them to understand each character’s thoughts and feeling as well as the motive for their actions. Guy de Maupassant emphasizes the remorse shown by Madame Loisel through diction. After 10 taxing years of working to pay off her debt she was left with, “Her hair untended, her skirts askew, her hands

Guy De Maupassant is recognized as one of the finest writers of the modern short story. Maupassant’s literary career began in 1880 in France. He was a marvelous writer of short stories which were based upon the aspects of the French Society, frequently touching sensitive subjects such as social and moral principles. The beauty of Maupassant’s stories is the unpredictability of them, quite identical to life, where things do not always turn up the way one may expect. The short story, Jewelry by Guy De Maupassant is an insightful piece, with a compelling theme of appearance versus reality and that the life is full of irony.

Mathilde is dejected about the invitation because she thinks she isn’t suited to go to this party due to her lack of wealth. Mathilde goes to an older lady the Loisels’ know, Madame Forestier, to get some jewels to wear. Mathilde finds a beautiful diamond necklace. The couple goes to the party and it is a great time for Mathilde, but on their way home,

Guy de Maupassant’s The Necklace shows the importance of being content with one’s life through the characters Madam Loisel, Monsieur Loisel, Madam Forestier. Madam Loisel struggles to find happiness in her life due to her desire to always have more. When Monsieur Loisel excitedly gave Madam Loisel an invitation to a fancy party, she “flung the invitation across the table” (Maupassant 1); She questioned her husband what exactly she was supposed to do with it because she did not have a fancy enough dress. The day of the party, Madam Loisel is sad because she doesn’t have any jewelry to wear, “not a single stone” (2).

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.

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.

Have you ever want too many things even though your life was already fulfilled and lost yourself? Have you ever ask too much and regret for what you did? Every desire, ambition, selfishness and a bit of extravagant of a human being was carefully portrayed in this story, “The Necklace”. The story is about a young woman named Mathilde Loisel. Born in a family of artisans, she wasn’t rich, but beautiful and glamor. But she never feel satisfied of what she had and never stop dreaming to have more, to live a luxury life with expensive homes and glittering dresses, and eventually paid hard for her nonsense dreams. In “The Necklace”, Guy de Maupassant uses third person limited narration to show how Mathilde Loisel changes in how she

“The Necklace”, by Guy de Maupassant, is an interesting tale of a beautiful but spoiled woman called Madame Loisel, who borrows a diamond necklace from a friend for a ball. However, Madame Loisel loses the necklace and, consequently, buys her friend a new one as a replacement. This purchase sends her into debt for ten years, which causes her to become hard-working and less beautiful. At the end of the story, it turns out that the original necklace was a fake, worth a fraction of the one she bought. In “The Necklace”, the author uses friendship and marriage to support the idea that, in any relationship, the flaws and strengths of each individual shape the flaws and strengths of the other.