The Necklace Character Analysis

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

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

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.

Mathilde Loisel was not only rueful but she was pushy to get what she desired and to hide her poverty filled life.“It’s nothing.It's just that I have no evening dress and so I can't go to the party” “...How much would a evening dress cost?” “Hard to say I could manage around 400 frances.” “He went pale..” Loisel didn't want to go to the ball her husband worked so hard to get ticket for because she didn't have a fancy enough dress to

“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.

One may wonder how she feels; as if it was all worth it to her now? When she sits to reflect on the evening of January 18th which was filled with beautiful dresses and the succulent food, is she remorseful? In the story “The Necklace” the main character, Mathilde loses her friend’s necklace that she assumed was made of diamonds. It goes into detail as to how her and her husband Loisel worked tirelessly to replace the garment over the course of 10 years. The theme of this essay is to reveal who is truly at fault for the downfall of Mathilde, comparing society’s views, her husband's actions, the involvement of Madame Forestier, and finally Mathilde herself.

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.

First, Mme. Loisel is invited to go to a prestigious party because of her husband’s occupation. Conflicted, she longed to go, but the restriction that made her hesitate was her social status and how she would seem in front of the other women. That is to say, Mathilde thought that without an evening dress or a necklace, it would be unsuitable and inadequate to attend the banquet. “It’s embarrassing to not have a jewel or a gem - nothing to wear on my dress.

Although portrayed as superficial, vain, and greedy through desirable materials, such as jewels and dresses, the female in “The Necklace” has less dependence on a male to shape her self-identity. The depiction of women in this text is far from common female stereotypes: They are portrayed as articulate and disobedient to men through their explicit behaviours. For instance, Mme. Loisel, who is invited to the party, reveals her emotions about her lack of luxurious items clearly by “throw[ing] the invitation on the table with annoyance” (Maupassant, 1). This motion is more expressive than any descriptions for her anger and frustration that blames her social status and circumstance. Also, her facial expressions such as “look[ing] at him with an

“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.

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!

“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

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.

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