The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

In The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant, Madame Forestier says to Madame Loisel, “Oh my poor Mathilde, how you’ve changed!”(615). Madame Loisel doesn’t change much because she is unappreciative of fate in life throughout the story. When readers start reading, she grieves over her lifestyle. Toward the middle, Madame Loisel is thankless her husband gets her a scarce invitation, and she doesn’t own a magnificent dress to wear. At the end, fed up, she had to change, Madame Loisel is unsatisfied.

In the begining of the short story, The Necklace written by Guy De Maupassant, He starts off by describing the character Mathilde, who is described as being ”one of those pretty and charming creatures who sometimes are born into a family of clerks. As I was reading I pictured a pretty lady who was pretty and charming and was happy with her life. As you continue reading, the story starts describing her life style and how she lives and then goes to what life style she would prefer. Mathilde, ”dressed plainly because she could not dress well”.

Have you ever felt like your life is not as it should be? In “The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant, Madame Loisel feels exactly like that. However, her disappointment may lead to some future trouble. Throughout the story, the author builds her character based on her actions, feelings and thoughts. Consequently, Madame Loisel is portrayed as an ungrateful, selfish and pessimistic woman.

Selfishness led Madame Loisel to feel as if her life wasn’t good enough, and feel as if she deserved better. She did not appreciate the life she had, spending her time day dreaming about living a life of luxury. When her husband arrived home with an invitation to an exclusive party, she was more distraught over not having a proper dress or accessory to wear than she was thankful for her husband’s efforts. She gladly took her husband’s savings, money he was intending to use to buy a gun for himself, and spent it on a dress for herself. Pride got in the way of Madame Loisel admitting her mistake of having lost the necklace. She’d rather accept her debt and spend years paying it off than tell Madame Forestier that she lost her jewels. In her mind, it would be unlike the beautiful, rich

In both the “The Necklace” and “The Kiss” both written by Guy De Maupassant are classic short stories that embody all literary elements. Like most short stories Maupassant takes the reader on many twists and turns, making the reader assume what is to happen next only to surprise you with what actually happens. In “The Necklace” social class, lust, and an unfortunate mistake lead a married couple to endure years of hardship. In “The Kiss” an experienced aunt writes a letter to her heartbroken niece using wisdom and personal accounts to help educate her niece regarding the power of the kiss. The author uses similar techniques and literary elements to teach the readers a lesson, help the story unfold, and give unexpected endings.

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

Madame Loisel suffers from a severe case of greed and envy. Madame wishes to live in a world of florid garments and silk curtains. She believes - by an accident of fate- that she was born into a middle class family of clerks, married to an unworthy man. On page 208, Maupassant narrates, “She grieved incessantly, feeling that she had been born for all the little niceties and luxuries of living.” Mathilde’s drab, average life isn’t enough for the life she believes she should be living. Instead of Madame changing her life to what she imagines it to be, Madame breaks down and lets herself to ponder about the life she could be living. Her envy for the people blessed with luxury takes Madame to believe that she deserves only the very best for herself. Furthermore, Madame displays gluttony on page 210, “She so much longed to please, be envied, be fascinating and sought after.” Her insane desire for wealth and status causes Madame to turn to the only thing that makes her feel needed, feel powerful, feel wealthy and rich; her imagination is with her throughout the whole story, letting herself deduce that she has to be envied and be sought after. The quote above demonstrates the act of coveting for Madame herself is drooling over the fact of being a person that people look up to.

In Guy de Maupassant’s story the necklace, Madame Loisel’s is a women in the middle class who’s unsatisfied with her lifestyle and envies the upper class lifestyle. Her personality takes her through a irony filled roller coaster throughout the story. The story shows three different types of irony in the story which are verbal, situational, and dramatic.

Have you ever want too many things even though your life was already fulfilled and lost yourself? Have you ever ask too much and regret for what you did? Every desire, ambition, selfishness and a bit of extravagant of a human being was carefully portrayed in this story, “The Necklace”. The story is about a young woman named Mathilde Loisel. Born in a family of artisans, she wasn’t rich, but beautiful and glamor. But she never feel satisfied of what she had and never stop dreaming to have more, to live a luxury life with expensive homes and glittering dresses, and eventually paid hard for her nonsense dreams. In “The Necklace”, Guy de Maupassant uses third person limited narration to show how Mathilde Loisel changes in how she

Madame Loisel had changed for the better in the end. In the beginning, her desires for expensive possessions were proven multiple times by details such as, "She had no gowns, no jewels, nothing. And she loved nothing but that. " Not only did she sought after the high-class lifestyle, she felt entitled to be in it. "Mathilde suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born to enjoy all delicacies and all luxuries."

In Guy De Mauspassant's `The Necklace," the author examines the theme of how learning a difficult lesson about honesty can impact someone for the rest of their life. The author also examines the theme through the use of his title, the characters who act out the events, and the plot.

The internal conflicts established in “The Necklace” were a result of Madame Loisels perception of happiness. Because of her ungrateful and dejected views on life, she didn’t realize nor recognize true merriment. In the text, Guy De Maupassant shows how Madame “..was one of those pretty and charming girls born as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of

Originating in France, ‘The Necklace’ is a short story written by French writer Guy de Maupassant in the late nineteenth century; the period where literary movements realism and naturalism dominated French fiction. Maupassant played an important role in both the realist movement and the naturalist movement through his depiction of the setting as well as the character’s decision. The short story reflects upon the rigid patriarchal society during the late nineteenth century, demonstrating how the wealth of a person can lead to their generosity and greed; thus affecting their lifestyles. Through ‘The Necklace’, Maupassant aims to depict the conflicts between the upper-class and the lower class and how their inner desires vary. This essay will

The nineteenth century French writer, Guy De Maupassant, tells an intriguing story in "The Necklace." He depicts the painful life of a beautiful woman, unhappily born into an average family of clerks. She felt that she was destined to marry into wealth but sadly found herself settling as she married an average copyist. Unlike the women of today, women in the nineteenth century were not fortunate enough to have a career of their own; they were either born into a wealthy family or married a man with money. In "The Necklace", Guy De Maupassant creatively reveals Mathilde Loisel's dreams of a decadent lifestyle. As her struggles start to unravel, it becomes obvious that her heartache is solely

Her persistent mindset of wanting and needing more, is how her internal conflict developed. All of Madame Loisel’s issues relate back to her internal fascination with becoming incredibly rich and valued by her peers. The text states, “She had longed so eagerly to charm, to be desired, to be wildly attractive and sought after.” (1) Madame Loisel’s mindset was simply set on materialistic things and being respected amongst her peers. Even throughout the years, her idea of ‘perfection’ never changed a bit. The story reads, “But sometimes, when her husband was at the office, she sat down by the window and thought of that evening long ago, of the ball at which she had been so beautiful and so much admired.” (5) Ten hard and stressful years later, Madame Loisel is still under the impression that everything she has must be beautiful and valued. This situation expresses irony because although she is beautiful, she still feels a desire to receive expensive things. The text states, “She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of artisans… She suffered endlessly, feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury.” (1) Although she is beautiful