The Necklace By Guy De Maupassant

In Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace” the protagonist, Madame Loisel, is a dynamic character because she moves from a woman who places appearance and status above all else to a figure that puts value into hard work. When Madame Loisel is first introduced by the narrator she is described as “One of those pretty and charming girls born, as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of artisans… She grieved incessantly, feeling that she had been born for all the little niceties and luxuries of living. She suffered from the poorness of her house, from its mean walls, worn chairs, and ugly curtains. All these things, of which other women of her class would not even have been aware, tormented and insulted her”.

In the begining of the short story, The Necklace written by Guy De Maupassant, He starts off by describing the character Mathilde, who is described as being ”one of those pretty and charming creatures who sometimes are born into a family of clerks. As I was reading I pictured a pretty lady who was pretty and charming and was happy with her life. As you continue reading, the story starts describing her life style and how she lives and then goes to what life style she would prefer. Mathilde, ”dressed plainly because she could not dress well”.

In Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace" is the story of Mathilde Loisel, who resents her "station" in life. Mathilde Loisel is shown to be a vain and ungrateful person who believes that she was born to have a better life. She feels that she has married beneath her, in spite of the fact that her husband is a hard working and dependable man. Mathilde is unable to recognize and appreciate the

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.

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.

‘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

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

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.

In his short story, “The Necklace,” Guy de Maupassant captures the interest of readers from the 1800’s through the 2000’s. The storyline details a time when the desire to move up in social status was almost unthinkable, and one could even be punished for considering the change. However, readers through the ages can relate to this type of deception of appearances still exhibited by mankind. Maupassant uses the literary elements of point of view, symbolism, and irony to skillfully progress this theme throughout the story.

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

“She would dream of fashionable dinner parties, of gleaming silverware, of tapestries making the walls alive with characters out of history and strange birds in a fairyland forest; she would dream of delicious dishes served on wonderful china, of gallant compliments whispered and listened to with a sphinx like smile as one eats the rosy flesh of a trout or nibbles at the wings of a grouse” (729). In The Necklace Monsieur Loisel is a modest man who is satisfied with minimum worries about what people think about him or with what he owns. Monsieur Loisel struggles to understand the material wants and needs of his wife, Mathilde Loisel, but he continues to be confused with the embarrassment. “He compromised the rest of his life,

In the “Necklace” written by Guy de Maupassant, the plot of the story was emphasized on the physical action, wanderings and the problems encountered by the main character. From the beginning, although her name was not being introduced for long until the middle of the story we can observe that the story grows out of the main character, Mathilde, who was being introduced about her back story, her character, her unhappiness with her mediocre life. Despite the fact that she lives in comfortable home with her loving husband, she is so unsatisfied and demanding that she wants to live in illusory world where her actual life does not match the ideal life she has in her head. The plot also depends on chance that intertwine with the main character’s action when she lost the necklace that she lends from Madame Forstier. The event turned out making the Loisels live a life of crippling poverty in a really shabby apartment.

The internal conflicts established in “The Necklace” were a result of Madame Loisels perception of happiness. Because of her ungrateful and dejected views on life, she didn’t realize nor recognize true merriment. In the text, Guy De Maupassant shows how Madame “..was one of those pretty and charming girls born as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of

The nineteenth century French writer, Guy De Maupassant, tells an intriguing story in "The Necklace." He depicts the painful life of a beautiful woman, unhappily born into an average family of clerks. She felt that she was destined to marry into wealth but sadly found herself settling as she married an average copyist. Unlike the women of today, women in the nineteenth century were not fortunate enough to have a career of their own; they were either born into a wealthy family or married a man with money. In "The Necklace", Guy De Maupassant creatively reveals Mathilde Loisel's dreams of a decadent lifestyle. As her struggles start to unravel, it becomes obvious that her heartache is solely