The Necklace Rise

‘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

Both the truth and lies can be deceiving; the truth is much harder to start but it is much less painful in the long run, whereas a lie is much easier to start but once you've started it continues to grow, as Mathilde found out in The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant. Mathilde is a middle class woman who doesn’t work, she has a cleaning lady yet she always complains about her “worn”, ”shabby” and “ugly” apartment. Mathilde dreams of money, beauty and luxurious furniture and accessories, all things she claims she doesn’t have, and doesn’t appreciate the luxuries she does have. At this point of the story Mathilde is selfish, unappreciative, snobby and pessimistic. Later in the story, when Mathilde and her husband are residing in the attic flat, Mathilde

In the textbook it states, “Following his army, Maupassant settled in Paris, where he began to develop his skills as a writer, guided by the famous French author Gustave Flaubert” (Wiggins 331). “The Necklace is written by Guy de Maupassant. This story is all about a beautiful, yet complicated women, that seems to not like her life. But she borrows a necklace from her friend causing great conflict on her life.

In the story, Mathilde lied about losing the valuable, diamond necklace her friend, Madame Forestier, gave to her. ‘"You must write to your friend," he said, “and tell her that you’ve broken the clasp of her necklace and that you are getting it mended. That’ll give us time to decide what to do.”’ (Maupassant 339) Although she felt bad for what she had done, she didn't want to suffer the consequences.

She was self-righteous and egotistical. Mathilde felt she deserved better then Claude and treated him poorly. She displayed this when she was rude to Claude about preparing and eating stew. Her only desires were insignificant and meaningless little things, mostly relating to wealth. She was so concerned with what she didn't have that she took what she did have for granted. Her insecurity about her possessions and how others view her was what lead her to borrow Jeanne’s necklace in the first place. Another one of her character flaws was her dishonesty. If she had told Jeanne she lost her necklace she would have saved herself and her husband a decade of strenuous work and unhappiness. Mathilde’s character flaws played a major role in her

Likewise, Mathilde in The Necklace thought the necklace was diamond and after draining life of all her youth, she finds that it was fake. Both the main characters in the pieces experience loss and are both ruined, one physically and one financially – and perhaps

In the beginning of The Necklace Mathilde is described as someone who is beautiful but resentful of her economic and social background-having been born to a middleclass family and married to a clerk and into the same class. With her beauty she feels she deserves better. This shows that the couple love each other a lot and they are really poor. Then, the inciting incident is when her husband comes home with tickets to attend a very affluent party, and she is excited to go but scared that she might look bad. The rising action is that Mathilde is not wealthy enough as she dreams to be. Her husband gives her money to buy a dress. But she is not satisfied until she asks a wealthy friend for a necklace. At the ball, the necklace makes Mathilde look

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

If she would've been proud of her inner beauty and not so focused on wealth and status, then her life would have been so much more rewarding. She learned the incredibly tough consequence of not Madame Forester about losing the necklace. Her decision cost herself time and money but more importantly, cost Mathilde her pride.

In the necklace the main character have many differences, as shown through their dialogue. Mathilde for example is shown to think that she deserves more than what she has, while her husband is shown to be grateful and responsible for what he has “"Nothing. Only I haven't a dress and so I can't go to this party. Give your invitation to some friend of yours whose wife will be turned out better than I shall." (Her husband was heart broken, all he had work for would have gone to waste with those words). So this shows how Mathilde really cares about how she looks and meaning she is self centered and ungrateful, she really did desire to look beautiful at the ball. Her husband as mentioned haad through work just to get the invitation, almost no clerks would be able to get able to get. It must have been a great pain to hear that yet her husband tried to find a way to make his wife happy. ( Mathilde asked for money to buy a dress which was exactly how

Guy de Maupassant, the author of “The Necklace,” said, “A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.” Mathilde, the main character in “The Necklace,” has a sickening thought and attitude towards life at all times.This attitude builds a character that not only devoured her flesh and mind, but her life as well. Guy de Maupassant attentively builds and shows Mathilde’s sickening character through the setting and the symbols.

Again, I wasn't expecting that ending at all. I really sympathize with Mathilde and her husband because they really didn't deserve to work that hard for just a necklace. Especially the husband, all he really wanted to do was buy a gun so that he can go hunting in the summer. I wouldn't necessarily say that Mathilde deserves those hard-working 10 years she lost to repay the lost necklace mainly because it has always been in Mathilde's nature to want the best and dreams of other luxuries. I do, however, blame her for the misfortune she brought upon her and her husband when she lost the "fake" necklace. If she wasn't so demanding of things and would have settled with simply the dress her husband bought for her in exchange of his gun dream, then for sure their lives would probably have been a whole lot

In "The Necklace," Mathilde is very selfish throughout the story. Mathilde shows her selfishness when she longs to be rich and live in a nice home, wear expensive clothing and wear flashy jewelry with her clothes. "These…show how materialistic Mathilde is and how selfish she is for caring only about gaining these things for herself," says one critic (Directessays). Mr. Loisel provides the basic necessities for her to live a good life, but she wants more than just the basic necessities.

When her husband gave her the invitation to the ball, which was a perfect place to meet the rich people, Mathilde got mad and cried. It was a shame since she has nothing to wear. Mr Loisel gave his money to Mathilde and she got an elegance dress. But she didn’t stop and wanted to have jewels. Mathilde met her friend, Madame Forestier and chose an gorgeous diamond necklace. Of course, she became the prettiest woman in the ball, with everyone stared at her, as if she was the most attractive woman ever. She felt fascinated, just like her dream came true. But then a tragic came to her. She lost the necklace! Mathilde and her husband tried to find the necklace, but they found nothing. Mathilde lost her hope and had aged five years. The Loisels finally decided to replace the diamonds for 36 000 Francs, spent all of their money and accepted to pay the debts. It was such an unfortunate situation. After Mathilde lost the necklace, she was described as “ And, clad like a poor woman, she went to the fruiterer, to the grocer, to the butcher, a basket on her arm, haggling, insulted, fighting for every wretched halfpenny of her money”. (Maupassant 8). The family was suffering from poverty and have to pay the debts continuously. Mathilde changed immediately and did everything. They have worked so hard to earn every single penny for their life, to survive and pay all those debts. The third person limited

Her utter conviction to her station of life as a mistake of fate shows how egocentric she is. She seems really vain because according to Maupassant, Mathilde is “burned with the desire to please, to be envied, to be attractive, and sought after”. Mathilde also has a friend that she can’t even bear to see because she was driven mad with jealousy. Seeing her friend with her desired lifestyle irritates her that much that she chose not pay her a visit anymore. At the party she attended, she was so happy because Mathilde, for once, has been noticed by rich people.