The Necklace Short Story

Truth allows humans to stand-alone. When they find truth they are able to be one against the whole. "Being in a minority even a minority of one did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not

The Story of an Hour and The Necklace share many similarities and also many differences; both explore the feeling that both wives harbor towards their husbands and the lack of communication that both wives share. In this essay I will discuss the similarities and differences that the two short stories share with regards to communication.

Reality is hard. And there is nothing more satisfying than knowing that you have the power to overturn any situation. Yet, facing reality is even harder. Sometimes we fear the pain will be so much that we prefer to duck our heads in the sand rather than go out and face our demons. But maybe facing reality

Lies, they're everywhere, are they worth the trouble? Throughout these three articles, “It’s the truth”, “Honestly tell the truth”, and “Rejecting all lies”, the authors precisely analyze who agrees, and who doesn’t agree with lying, and why. Lying may be the first thing to come to mind when in a bad situation, but does anyone realize how much damage it can cause towards the other person or to the liar themselves?

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

Henry David Thoreau plainly said it when he described, “...they do not know by how much truth is stronger than error,” (Thoreau, 836). He believed that truth was better for you than any error, and that you will benefit from telling the truth. Truth comes from within and is not found by listening to the majority of people. Emerson believed, “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” (Emerson, 534). Truth is in yourself and, not what others tell you. This is positive for an individual because it gives one a higher level of confidence in what is right. On page 918, Thoreau stated, “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” He then proceeds to mention that he sat at a table that was abundant in wealth and fancy but the hospitality was terrible. People should be hospitable towards people and have good meaning in themselves, or truth, rather than have only wealth and not benefitting. Once the individual believes that what they think is right, more people will follow that truth in an idea against the mainstream of other people’s thoughts and actions.

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

their lack of consideration for what is true shows that they have no intention to tell the truth, or

Deception Jehan Fostanes Nayga had once said, “Know that to understand other people, is one way of helping them to grow”. In “Immune to Reality”, Daniel Gilbert states, “ Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one” (Gilbert 131). Gilbert’s essay is based off the foundation of happiness and its unpredictability. However, happiness is an intangible chimerical feeling that often times is obtained with understanding and knowledge.

We never know what can come out of the blue, living in a world that we have built in our thoughts - world which requires courage, knowledge and pure awareness of what surround us. How difficult is to see, understand, except and live with the truth the way it is. Without the burden, the guilt and the pain we can’t learn, evolve to eventually reach a certain degree of happiness. “The ones who walked away from Omelas ” by Ursula K. Le. Guinn is a story about a city.

An amazing literary example of the usage of lies is “The Drawer Boy” by Michael Healey, where one character named Morgan dug himself a hole that was almost impossible get out of without

Satisfaction “The Necklace” is a short story that follows Madame Loisel, a woman who craves to be wealthy and admired above all else. In the song, “Satisfied” from the Broadway musical, Hamilton, “I will never be satisfied,” is one of the most prominent lines. In Hamilton, Angelica Schuyler declares that she will never be satisfied until she gets the specific man she wants; Alexander Hamilton. This is much like Madame Loisel’s dissatisfaction with anything less than the best and her thirst for beauty and a better life that can’t seem to be quenched. The two both experienced a life changing night that was centered around their greatest desires.

At first glance, Chopin’s Story of an Hour (1894) and de Maupassant’s The Necklace (1884), appear to have very little in common. Chopin’s story, as displayed in its title is quite short; while in comparison, de Maupassant tells a much more detailed account of the beleaguered Loisel’s, who must learn from the self-centred Madam Loisel. With de Maupassant’s depiction of his female protagonist as selfish and ungrateful; it is difficult to fathom Chopin, known for her active role in describing woman's oppression in the nineteenth century. Interestingly, Chopin, a realist, did consider de Maupassant to

when she hears of her husband’s death. Although she is not stuck as many women would have

Initially, accepting the truth of any matter is portrayed to be a necessity when considering what’s necessary to be content in all aspects of life. In “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)”, Shakespeare describes a love so genuine that he does not exaggerate his partner’s physical appearance for comparison to the finer things because to him she is perfect in her own sense and being. “And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare / As any she belied with false compare” (Arp 807). The use of an admiringly judgmental tone shows that accepting the facts