The Necklace By Guy De Maupassant

The quality of one’s emotional life changes over the years. But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In short story “The Necklace” written by Guy de Maupassant is about a woman by the name of Mathilde. She’s described to be average in the physical sense and was married to a clerk by the name of Loisel. The couple get invited to a ball and shortly after, Mathlide complains that her wardrobe was too embarrassing to wear to the ball. Loisel buys his wife a gown and suggests she borrows a necklace from her friend to complete the outfit. Mathlide falls in love with a necklace from the collection. “She threw her arms round her friend's neck, kissed her passionately, then fled with her treasure” (Maupassant 44). The night of the ball Mathlide realized she had lost the necklace. The couple decide to replace the necklace ad work ten years to pay off the debt, finally finds out the original necklace was a fake. This short story created a perspective for who to blame for the outcome of the situation, which in this case is Mathlide.

Madame Loisel suffers from a severe case of greed and envy. Madame wishes to live in a world of florid garments and silk curtains. She believes - by an accident of fate- that she was born into a middle class family of clerks, married to an unworthy man. On page 208, Maupassant narrates, “She grieved incessantly, feeling that she had been born for all the little niceties and luxuries of living.” Mathilde’s drab, average life isn’t enough for the life she believes she should be living. Instead of Madame changing her life to what she imagines it to be, Madame breaks down and lets herself to ponder about the life she could be living. Her envy for the people blessed with luxury takes Madame to believe that she deserves only the very best for herself. Furthermore, Madame displays gluttony on page 210, “She so much longed to please, be envied, be fascinating and sought after.” Her insane desire for wealth and status causes Madame to turn to the only thing that makes her feel needed, feel powerful, feel wealthy and rich; her imagination is with her throughout the whole story, letting herself deduce that she has to be envied and be sought after. The quote above demonstrates the act of coveting for Madame herself is drooling over the fact of being a person that people look up to.

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

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.

‘The Necklace’ is a morality tale written by Guy de Maupassant where he portrays the life of a beautiful but dissatisfied girl named Mathilde who desires to live a luxurious life despite being born into a clerk’s family and marrying a clerk too. Mathilde’s discontentment in life instigates her to pretend someone rich that she is not. Moreover, it leads her to severe trouble that caused ten years of hardship to Mathilde and her husband. So, this suffering is a punishment for Mathilde which taught her a lesson and changed her dramatically over the course of the story by making her a person of completely different personality for whom appearances

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

In Guy De Mauspassant's `The Necklace," the author examines the theme of how learning a difficult lesson about honesty can impact someone for the rest of their life. The author also examines the theme through the use of his title, the characters who act out the events, and the plot.

Correspondingly, through the use of direct characterization, telling the audience what the personality of the character is, Maupassant implies that the main character doesn’t appreciate what she possesses. In the beginning of the story, the main character—Madame Loisel—ponders why her life is so terrible, to the point that “she grieved incessantly, feeling that she had been born for all the niceties and luxuries of living” (de Maupassant 66). Madame Loisel is characterized as someone who is constantly upset over the fact that she had been born into a family of clerks rather than one with a higher social status or with more wealth. She feels that her current lifestyle is unfair and she deserves better if not the best just because she does. By “grieving incessantly,” it means that she continuously feels great distress over her predicament. She mourned “that she had been born for all the niceties and luxuries of living,” probably because she felt her way of life wasn't good enough for someone of her caliber. To constantly whine about it, gives her the feel of having

Lying is a big part of regret, problems and headaches that happen a lot to humans now a days. Lying can make you go through a lot of stress and hard work. In a short story called “The Necklace” written by Guy de Maupassant. A poor woman named Mathilde Loisel has gotten invited to a rich people party. Poor Mathilde had no jewelry to wear so she asked her friend Mathilde Loisel to lend her the most beautiful jewel and madam Forestier did. While Mathilde was heading back home she noticed she has lost the jewel and she can’t find it anywhere, so she goes out and buys a fake replica and gives it back to madam forestier until ten years later after he and her husband work their butt off to pay for the beautiful “expensive” jewel, she finally up to forestier,tells her the truth, gave her the 36,000 jewel that she bought, just so forestier can say the one she gave Mathilde in the first place was fake.

No one could find a nicer girl then that,” (Maupassant, 67)This is the common viewpoint of Madam. Which implies that man men my try and impress her with great riches such as jewelry. Instead Mr. Lantin decides to marry her and they love each other very much with only few complications, she enjoys her time at the theater and her taste for fake jewelry. Mr Lantin despises the 2 main thing she loves so he stays away from them. These parts of the story build the exposition because they build up the emotional connection to the characters. The inctiing incident occurs when Madam dies eight days after her last visit to the theater. Mr. Lantin is left alone, while he learns to maintain his house, and manage his basic necessities to survive. “He got a little into debt, like men obliged to live by their wits. At last one morning that he happened to find himself without a cent in his pocket.” (Maupassant, 69) This part of the story is what moves into the rising action. At this point you are wondering how the story may end, will Mr. Lantin die of starvation or find a saving

In the first page, Maupassant says, “She was one of those pretty, charming young women who are born, as if by an error of Fate, into a petty official’s family.” Here, it is implied that Loisel was destined for higher nobility from birth, and should have been born into a more remarkable family. With the adjectives pretty and charming, it is revealed that she is not average. Madame Loisel knows these things, and she always is imagining a higher, grander life, of riches, materialistic items, and fine luxuries.

In the short story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant reveals the them that facing the consequences sooner than later has a less impact on your life later. First, when Mathilde, a woman from Paris, feels at her lowest because she doesn’t have the nicest things or the fanciest things, she gets invited to the social ball of her time in her town. Next, Mathilde isn’t happy with what she has so she asks her husband for a new dress so she could be the prettiest there, along with borrowing a diamond necklace from Madame Forestier. In addition, Mathilde danced all night, and by the time she got home she realized the necklace was gone. Her husband searched and searched till they found an exact replica of the one that she had lost, except it costed

How you ever met a person who is different on the inside than on the outside? Mathilde Loisel is a pretty, middle-class woman who lives in Paris in the late 1800s. The story “The Necklace” is written by Guy de Maupassant. She doesn’t think about others/selfish. Her husband treats her like he should and she isn’t happy with it. She cares too much about her outward appearance. Besides the fact that she is pretty, Mathilde Loisel is also a closed-minded, selfish, and a vain person.

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.

Her persistent mindset of wanting and needing more, is how her internal conflict developed. All of Madame Loisel’s issues relate back to her internal fascination with becoming incredibly rich and valued by her peers. The text states, “She had longed so eagerly to charm, to be desired, to be wildly attractive and sought after.” (1) Madame Loisel’s mindset was simply set on materialistic things and being respected amongst her peers. Even throughout the years, her idea of ‘perfection’ never changed a bit. The story reads, “But sometimes, when her husband was at the office, she sat down by the window and thought of that evening long ago, of the ball at which she had been so beautiful and so much admired.” (5) Ten hard and stressful years later, Madame Loisel is still under the impression that everything she has must be beautiful and valued. This situation expresses irony because although she is beautiful, she still feels a desire to receive expensive things. The text states, “She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of artisans… She suffered endlessly, feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury.” (1) Although she is beautiful