The Necklace Sacrifice

Madam Loisel begins to age at a drastically between other women of her age bracket as she worried herself with reimbursing an imitation necklace, unknown to her, that was thought to be beyond her means. “Oh!... my poor Mathilde, how you’ve changed!...” “Yes, I have had some hard times since I last saw you… It has taken us ten years to pay for it. ”(Maupassant)

Upon finding out that both she and her husband are invited to the palace, “Instead of being delighted, as her husband hoped she threw the invitation on the table,” (Maupassant 555). Mathilde does not appreciate the invitation and instead starts worrying about her lack of proper dress, or in this case her lack of an expensive dress to wear. Her poor husband had trouble getting an invitation in the first place, and only wanted one because he thought Mathilde would be happy, “But my dear, I thought you would be glad. You never go out, and this is such a fine opportunity. I had awful trouble to get it. Everyone wants to go; it is very select, and they are not giving many invitations to clerks,” (Maupassant 555). Her husband only wants what’s best for her and couldn’t care less about going to the palace, he only wants to go because he thought his wife would like the change of scenery. This shows that the husband loves Mathilde dearly and would do anything for her. He further proves his loyalty and love by sacrificing the money he put aside for himself to buy a gun, to buy Mathilde an expensive dress with. Unlike his wife, M. Loisel appreciates and is thankful for his lifestyle. He knows there’s no use in dreaming for more, and so he’s always accepted his lifestyle without having any burning desires to be wealthy. Mathilde on the other hand, spends so much of her time convincing herself that possessions only have value if they are expensive, that she loses sight of the real value

Madame Loisel is trying to fit in by wearing a new dress and some accessories. This shows dramatic irony, because Madame Loisel wanted to be in the upper class and feel pretty, so she borrowed the necklace from Madame Forestier. When she lost the necklace, she ended up being towards the lower class because she had to use up all of her money to replace

One of the dilemmas that Mme. Loisel faced occurred just after she had acquired a new dress to wear to the aforementioned reception. The dilemma was, she owned no jewelry to wear with the gown, “It’s embarrassing not to have a jewel or a gem - nothing to wear on my dress.” (de Maupassant 223). Mme. Loisel’s husband suggested, “Go see your friend Mme. Forestier, and ask her to lend you some

He is satisfied with his talents and almost never asks for more than what he needs. These two are opposites in many ways, but are also similar to each other because of their tragic flaws that led to their downfalls-Mathilde’s being greed and Finny’s being contentedness in a greedy world. Madame Mathilde Loisel is a beautiful woman who thinks she was cursed by not being able to enjoy the luxuries that many women around her can. She longs for more exquisite dinners, for example, while her husband, Monsieur Loisel, is happy with a simple beef stew. When Monsieur and Madame Loisel receive an invitation to a ball hosted by the minister of education,

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 pursuit to obtain this apparent life style is what left her empty at the end. After ten years of hard work and misery to pay a replacement diamond necklace, she informs her high class friend, Mme. Forestier, she lost the original necklace the night of the ball. To her surprise she discovers the necklace was fake and not worth the money they spent ten year working to pay. In this story, we observe that Madame Loisel does not notice the sacrificing love her husband has for her and simply sees him as a clerk and nothing more.

Madame Loisel allows her lust for more take over her and cause her real goals in life come out. She believes that in order to attend a party she will need a dress and jewelry. Nonetheless, Loisel’s

Madame Loisel’s pride demands more: “It annoys me not to have a single jewel, not a single stone, nothing to put on. I shall look like distress” (Maupassant 2). Ironically, it is Monsieur Loisel who suggests that his wife borrow jewelry from Madame Forestier, and subsequently has to spend the next ten years borrowing money to replace it. As May puts it, “Her husband exhausts his meager inheritance and then borrows the rest, mortgaging their life away to buy a replacement for the necklace” (May 7). Monsieur Loisel sacrifices everything to salvage his wife’s pride.

In the Necklace by Guy M. Madame Loisel, the protagonist, undergoes a change from being spoiled and self centered woman to a more hard working and appreciative woman. Throughout her life, she did experience many difficulties and challenges but this one event changed the way she viewed everything. In the beginning of the story, Mme Loisel wanted everything. She never thought of anyone but herself, as she wanted and lusted for more money and luxury.

While Madame Loisel had everything she needed, she continues to express her displeasure with the simplicity of her lifestyle. This supports her ungrateful identity because she feels like she deserves everything a rich woman deserves and does not appreciate her own possessions. This is the part where her sense of entitlement comes into play. Madame Loisel believes that life owes her more because of her own beauty, and she felt entitled to live a life of great ease. She saw no value in anything natural or inexpensive, as evidenced in her reaction to her husband’s suggestion that she should “wear flowers” to the party (Maupassant 2).

Loisel is overdramatic about the little things that should not even matter. Her husband asks her what is wrong when she crying about the invitation she replies, “Oh, Nothing. Only I don’t have an evening dress and therefore I can’t go to that affair” (2). Mme. Loisel does not see the invitation as her husband doing something sweet for her; she sees it as an issue. The fact that she cannot just be happy about being invited because she might not have the perfect dress is ridiculous. Later when the dress situation is solved with the help of her husband, she is once again unhappy, “It’s embarrassing not to have a jewel or a gem-nothing to wear on my dress. I’ll look like a pauper; I’d almost rather not go” (3). Once again, she makes a big deal about not having something nice to go with her dress; this makes more unnecessary problems and adds to the negative portrayal of

In life, we often want what we can’t have, and this causes us to overlook what we do have and bring out the worst in ourselves. In the short story “The Necklace” written by Guy de Maupassant, the author writes about a beautiful young woman who wants more than what she has. Madame Loisel would be described as beautiful, young lady who lives in France in the late eighteenth century. She is a middle class women women who feels displeased with her life. Madame Loisel was born to a poor family which later limited her options in who she could marry in life.

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.

“The Necklace”, by Guy de Maupassant, is an interesting tale of a beautiful but spoiled woman called Madame Loisel, who borrows a diamond necklace from a friend for a ball. However, Madame Loisel loses the necklace and, consequently, buys her friend a new one as a replacement. This purchase sends her into debt for ten years, which causes her to become hard-working and less beautiful. At the end of the story, it turns out that the original necklace was a fake, worth a fraction of the one she bought. In “The Necklace”, the author uses friendship and marriage to support the idea that, in any relationship, the flaws and strengths of each individual shape the flaws and strengths of the other.