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    In the famous short story, The Necklace, Guy de Maupassant portrays a girl named Mathilde who expects everything to be handed to her on a silver platter. Mathilde believes that she is too beautiful to be poor even though she is not very poor. She has a comfortable life, but her greed gets the best of her. Mathilde’s husband wants to please her, she gives her as much as he can to make her happy. She still wants more, and this causes her to end up with less money that she did before. Mathilde has to

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    Ten years of life used to pay back a debt that was worth ten thousand dollars. Was it worth it? Guy de Maupassant was a popular French writer who is known as one of the fathers of modern short stories. Many of Maupassant’s stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870’s. Maupassant ended up writing about three hundred short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. In his short story, ‘The Necklace’, the main character, Mathilde Loisel, feels as if she should

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    In the story, “The Necklace”, by Guy de Maupassant, a young woman by the name of Mathilde loses a very pretty necklace that she borrowed from her friend at a fancy ball. She and her husband then try to pay back the necklace by taking out a loan to purchase a new one, and and paying off the debts, which takes ten years. Only to discover later that the necklace was actually not diamond, as she had thought. In “The Necklace”, Mathilde learns that you can not always have what you desire most after she

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    How does Guy de Maupassant create sympathy in the short story ‘The Necklace? The Necklace is a story written with the intent of the combination of greed, vanity, forbidden desire and wealth. It was written by a famous writer named Guy De Maupassant. Throughout the story, it talked about a woman named Mathilde. She was overpowered with discontent of her situation in society and wanted more than she could afford. She daydreamed about the pleasures of life and grieved about how little she had. Her husband

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    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

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    Henri Ren Albert was a popular French artist who wrote under the pen name Guy de Maupassant (American literature1). He is most famous for his short stories, which paint a fascinating picture of French life in the 19th century (biography 1). Guy de Maupassant was successful in writing over 300 short stories, 30 volumes, six novels, traveling books, articles, and poems (biography 1). All of his work was mainly based off of the things he observed, and experienced in his time. The necklace was written

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    How do false impressions impact Guy de Maupassant’s short story, “The Jewelry?” Written by Guy de Maupassant, this short story took place in nineteenth-century Paris. Monsieur Lantin was the Chief Clerk at the office of the Minister of Interior, and he was happily married to Madame Lantin for six years. The only issues that Monsieur Lantin had with his wife were that she was passionate about fake jewelry and theater. However, one night, she came home from the show and died from pneumonia. Her death

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    Literary Analysis Essay of ‘The Necklace’ by Guy de Maupassant ‘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

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    Guy De Maupassant 's, "The Necklace", is a short story about Mathilde Loisel, a middle-class wife, who is dissatisfied with her life and believes that she was meant to live as an upper-class woman. When invited to her husband 's ball, she manipulates her way into getting a new dress and borrows her friend 's diamond necklace. After the ball, she discovers the necklace is gone. Both Malthilde and her husband delay returning the lost necklace, and secretly buy a replica. They both struggle ten years

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    nice things she once possessed and does not appreciate what all her husband does to make her happy. Mathilde does not fully learn her lesson about greed and being ungrateful until she loses her middle class status and goes into extreme debt. Guy de Maupassant tells a valuable lesson about greed and ungratefulness in the short story The Diamond Necklace by showing what happens to Mathilde when she dreams of a better life, receives it for a night, and is still not satisfied. Mathilde does not appreciate

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