A comparison of what seems to be two completely different stories may not make sense, but they may have a lot in common if you review it carefully! In this case, we are comparing James Thurber's “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace¨. In James Thurber’s story, Walter Mitty is simply a normal man going down the road with his wife, although in his mind, in which he is daydreaming, he is captaining a hydroplane through a hurricane, while it breaks down. When woken from his dream, he was going 55 mph on an open road with his wife who was terrified by the speed he was traveling at. In Guy de Maupassant's story, the main character is Madame Loisel. She is married to a small clerk, lives in a small shabby apartment, and doesn’t have many friends to go out and be social with. One day her husband comes home and has a special invitation to a social event but she fears she can’t go due to the fact that she doesn’t have any jewels or a nice dress to wear. She buys a new dress, and borrows a necklace from her friend for the event. When the event is over she find that she has lost this “expensive” necklace. Her and her husband end up paying for a new one, only …show more content…
In both Thurber’s and Maupassant’s stories, the main character seems to lead an unhappy life in reality. In “The Necklace”, Madame Loisel is unhappy with her low and simple living conditions. The reason for this is that she is living in an apartment that is very shabby in her opinion. (Dingy draperies, worn looking chairs, etc.) She feels as if she is miserable because she doesn’t own fancy dresses and jewels like the other women of the town. Walter seems to be living an unhappy life, so bad in fact that he daydreams while driving! As he simply drives his wife complains and freaks out because he’s going fifty-five miles per hour, because she doesn't like to go over forty. His life seems very unreasonable and somewhat
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
Guy De Maupassant is recognized as one of the finest writers of the modern short story. Maupassant’s literary career began in 1880 in France. He was a marvelous writer of short stories which were based upon the aspects of the French Society, frequently touching sensitive subjects such as social and moral principles. The beauty of Maupassant’s stories is the unpredictability of them, quite identical to life, where things do not always turn up the way one may expect. The short story, Jewelry by Guy De Maupassant is an insightful piece, with a compelling theme of appearance versus reality and that the life is full of irony.
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.
Living Independent, adventurously, creativity this is how Uncle Marcos lives in “Uncle Marcos” (Isabel Allende), but Walter Mitty lives the opposite of an adventurous life or at least to the rest of the world he does in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (James Thurber). Uncle Marcos and Walter Mitty are two completely different people, who live two completely different lifestyles. Uncle Marcos lives an adventurous and Independent life, while Walter Mitty lives and average everyday boring lifestyle. They seem like they have nothing in common at first glance but underneath they are quite similar, and they both live the way the other wants.
Guy de Maupassant lived from 1850-1893. He was in Paris when he was born and when he died. Maupassant also lived most of his life in Paris. While he lived there he got inspiration for many stories. Maupassant was very aware of what was going on in Paris during the time he wrote The Necklace. “His stories strikingly captured various aspects of day-to-day life in France during that time” (Bio. Maupassant ¶1). Most of what he wrote was based off of real events making the story a reality. He knew of the moral issues at the time and he addressed
‘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
“To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, to draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life.” is a key quote from Ben Stiller’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Though there are many similarities between the original short story and the film version of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, such as Walter being treated with a lack of respect, there are also discrepancies such as the different portrayals of the character of Walter Mitty.
“Wow, A.j., look at this! cried Sheriff Mitty as they entered into the restaurant. There was a man and a woman lying on the kitchen floor in a puddle of blood. They were dead. The owner told the Chief of Police that the man, his wife, and child were having lunch there that day. He had seen them in the restaurant nearly every day. Now, that they had found the man and his wife, they needed to find the child, but they did not know if the killer was still inside the restaurant.
In my opinion i liked the movie of Walter Mitty more than the classic short story of walter Mitty because it had an ending that helped you understand on how the story ended and in the short story it ends on walter daydreaming about getting shot by a firing squad.
The short story ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ by James Thurber share similarities to the romantic comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the movie, but they also contain many differences. * The short story tells a tale of a man escape reality whilst the movie displays the man daydreaming to enhance reality. Similarly, Walter Mitty in both stories is a man that daydreams to a big extent. His daydreams always involve women as the root cause.
Two of the greatest short stories written back in late 19th and early 20th centuries are still read by many people. The two stories are “A Rose for Emily” written by William Faulkner and Guy De Maupassant’s “The Necklace”. Faulkner’s book is about a woman named Emily Grierson’s life and her horrible secret she hides. The other book is about a materialistic woman named Mathilde Loisel loses a fake necklace and find out to be a fake one after ten years later. Although these stories are written about fifty years apart and written from two different countries, these two stories have many similarities and differences. “A Rose for Emily” and “The Necklace” are juxtaposed with the main characters, usage of symbolism on the title, and the tone
In the short story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant reveals the them that facing the consequences sooner than later has a less impact on your life later. First, when Mathilde, a woman from Paris, feels at her lowest because she doesn’t have the nicest things or the fanciest things, she gets invited to the social ball of her time in her town. Next, Mathilde isn’t happy with what she has so she asks her husband for a new dress so she could be the prettiest there, along with borrowing a diamond necklace from Madame Forestier. In addition, Mathilde danced all night, and by the time she got home she realized the necklace was gone. Her husband searched and searched till they found an exact replica of the one that she had lost, except it costed
Short stories are some of the hardest stories to write; taking into consideration just how much balance there has to be between details and plot, telling a full story in about ten pages. Guy De Maupassant, who wrote The Necklace, and Louise Erdrich, author of The Leap, are two brilliant writers. The Necklace is about a materialistic woman who longs to be richer than she is. She gets an invite to a fancy dance and goes out of her way to appear like she is from money. In this process she borrows a diamond necklace from a friend. When she loses it instead of telling her, she works for ten year until she has enough money to buy a new one. When she finally returns the necklace her friend explains that the necklace was fake and worth nothing, showing that the main character could have avoided many issues by just telling the truth. The Leap is a story told by a daughter, telling of her mother. She talks about her mother’s hardships after she was in a trapeze accident and of the person she is now. Specifically she tells of a story in which her house was burning with her inside. Her mother jumps onto the roof and saves her daughter, eventually bringing the story to a heartwarming ending. The two authors wrote with multiple literary elements and writing techniques that created two incredibly engulfing stories. Yet even though both Maupassant and Erdrich wrote two astounding stories, The Necklace overshadows The Leap; With more attention to details and a shocking storyline, Maupassant has written a better, more prodigious story.
Monsieur Lantin, of Guy De Maupassant’s, “The Jewelry” is a man married to a woman who he became infatuated with over the influence of others, resulting in their marriage, and her eventual untimely death; shortly after her death it is revealed that she lived a mysterious life with her not-so-fake jewels. Madam Lantin’s character is revealed from the perspective of her husband, by way of Maupassant using third person point of view, consequently making her a flat character. Monsieur relies upon his wife to conserve his ever so quaint lifestyle. Monsieur is that of a dynamic individual, in the sense that he has the ability to adapt to life by a swayed decision making method, usually resulting in their misplaced value in his happiness. Based on the context in this short story, it is safe to say that Monsieur takes life at face value, is critical of two of his wife’s habits, and eventually becomes overwhelmed with skepticism concerning his emotional and financial life.
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