The Necklace Character Analysis

In "The Necklace" the authors choice of words, or diction, is very well articulated. I enjoyed this story because the narrator, Guy de Maupassant sets us so much suspense with the tone of the story. Madame Louisel essentailly loses a valuable item, or so she thought, and goes to major extents and even life-deminishing problems to just make it seem like she was not responsible enough to take care of a necklace for a night.

Ever met someone so dreadful that they were considered pushy or even rueful? Well, if so stay tuned because this essay will be over just exactly that, but only about a necklace and Mathilde Loisel. In the story The Necklace (Maupassant) Mathilde Loisel is a poverty stricken beautiful women, who gets to go to a ball with her husband. But with being poor her pride gets the best of her. Meaning, she wants a expensive ball gown for husband to buy her but, she can't have a ball gown without a necklace, so she borrows a necklace from her very high end friend. As the night of the ball come to an end Loisel realizes that her friends diamond necklace is missing and now she has to work everyday for the rest of her life just to pay the necklace off. With that being said Loisel has many personality conflict which only interfere with life story. Loisel would be considered pushy because she pushed her husband to buy her a new fancy dress and she also would be considered rueful because of all the regret she had in her life when she lost the diamond necklace.

First, the author develops her character through her personality. On page three it says, “The day of the ball drew near and Madame Loisel seemed sad, uneasy, anxious.” Even though her husband gave her the money he was setting aside for himself to buy her a dress, she still rather wouldn’t go because she didn’t have any jewelry. She was anxious and depressed because of it. Madame Loisel also completely ignored her husband’s suggestion of putting natural flowers in her hair and the fact that they were in style. She much prefers not to go just because she didn’t have all the things she wanted.

Have you ever made a choice that had a consequence? You will be informed about how these characters choices had consequences. In the first place, you will learn about how your choices always have consequences. Equally important is how dynamic characters affect the consequence of choice. Ultimately tone affects the way the reader reads the story. The characters in a story help me understand the consequence of choice by helping me learn from my mistakes and make sure I don't make the same ones.

In the short story “ The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant the main character Mmd. Loisel is a selfish and dishonest person. The first character trait is that she shows is that she’s selfish. Mmd. Loisel demenstrates selishishness by crying about not having the right dress so her husband had to give her money to buy a fancy dress.

The central character is round, he is a dreamer, a lover, a dancer, is creative, and a bully victim. He is very friendly and caring, the way he helps out his friends and so easily forgives his attempted robbers/ bullies. But he is also slightly strange in how he made the necklace and seems to be a bit confused or out of place at times. Shawna, his love, seems to be static in the way that she tends to repeat the same habits, like leaving, but the story ends before we can see if she becomes more dynamic and decides to stay this time.

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

People who are driven by greed end up focusing on what they do not have instead of being grateful for what they do have. This is relevant in the short story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant because Mathilde Loisel ends up losing everything she owns just because she lets greed drive her decisions and get the best of her. When receiving an invitation to an extravagant ball, she declines because she says she does not have anything nice to wear. In the beginning of the short story she says, “There is nothing more humiliating than looking poor in the middle of a lot of rich women.(Maupassant).” The reader sees how she puts value in possessions and what others think of her. After finding a dress and then borrowing a necklace that she thought

She removed the wraps which covered her shoulders before the glass, so as once more to see herself in all her glory. But suddenly she uttered a cry. She no longer had the necklace around her neck!

Madame Loisel is a very stuck up character in the beginning of the story. She sees no value to money. She believes she was meant to live a wealthy life, and has high hopes for an elegant and luxurious life. This is shown in story when it says that “She suffered constantly, feeling that all her attributes of a gracious life, even luxury, should have rightfully been hers.”

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.

“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.

“She was one of those pretty and charming girls, born, as if by an accident into a family of clerks” this is what Guy de Maupassant started “The Necklace” off by saying (Maupassant 221). Also, this helps describe the main character and to give the readers a visual of Mathilde Loisel. “The Necklace” is a short story that Mathilde Loisel, the main female character, wants to be a higher class than she really is. Mathilde’s life drastically changes one night after she loses the necklace. Guy de Maupassant incorporates his use of the social class into the short story.

In the events leading up to the climax, Madame Loisel is portrayed as a stunning woman born into the wrong family. In being so, she dresses plainly with no happiness, as she wishes to be adorn with pearls and diamonds. Unfortunately for her, as she was born into a family in which they didn’t have the income to make her dreams come true, she must instead marry a “little clerk” husband and live with him in an apartment so shabby it brings her eyes to tears (1). She weeps “all day long, from chagrin, from regret, from despair, and from distress”, she dreams day after day about escaping it all as she wanted “so much to charm, to be envied, to be desired and sought after” (6,3). During the day, she dreams of the “thought of silent antechambers hung with Oriental tapestry, illumined by tall bronze candelabra, and of two great footmen in knee breeches who sleep in the big armchairs, made drowsy by the oppressive heat of the stove. She thought of long

“The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant resonates the theme of humility and serves the meaning of being happy with who you are, and to be grateful for the things you have in your life. Throughout the short story, we are shown how unhappy the main protagonist Mathilde is constantly in her daily life. Even though she has everything that allows her to be comfortable, such as having a house servant and a husband who supports her, she is dissatisfied with her status and wealth. Mathilde is unappreciative to her husband, and with what she has in her life because she is blinded by her aspiration to live above the middle class and into a higher rank. The conflict began after she lost the necklace that she borrowed from her friend to attend a ball