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    expensive cars, and excessive amounts of money. A person who is obsessed with materialistic things will never truly be satisfied or happy with life. Guy de Maupassant depicts a clear example of this modern day misfortune in the short story “The Necklace.” By looking at syntax, symbolism, and vocabulary used in “The Necklace,” we can see that Maupassant clearly illustrates the theme that a desire for material possessions has great power to destroy an individual, which most people do not recognize. This

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    “Success is often measured by material worth. The more money they have, the more successful they are”. Author Guy de Maupassant challenges the reader to think more about this concept and surrounding change that can cause every success to fail. Maupassant plots these consequences of greed through the story 'Necklace' by showing the physical and mental 'change' of a woman named Mathilde, before and after the arrival of a ‘diamond’ necklace. In context, the story “The Necklace” was influenced from

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    The story, The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant was about telling the truth. The story was about a woman named Mathilde Loisel. This woman is very selfish and only cares about herself. She wants everything in life even though she can’t have it. Telling the truth is better than lying. If you lie to parents, friends, even bosses it can make a big impact on your life. Lying to your parents can impact your life in several ways. If you lie to your parents it could make them lose trust in you. Parents can

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    respond to events and experience a change in their personality or their view of life. Mathilde from the story “The Necklace,” by Guy de Maupassant and Roger from “Thank You, M’am,” by Langston Hughes are both dynamic characters. The changes experienced by these characters helped to develop the central ideas of the stories. In “The Necklace,” a story by Guy de Maupassant, the author tells you that people should always come clean for what they have done. In the beginning, Mathilde always wants to be

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    Many people wonder whether terrible things happen because of fate or because of their actions. In the story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, a young woman named Mathilde borrowed a diamond necklace from her friend and lost it. She secretly bought another diamond necklace to replace it and lived for ten years in poverty before discovering that her friend’s necklace had fake diamonds instead of the real ones she bought with which she replaced it. Mathilde is a victim of her own desires because

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    people around them have it. Both greed and selfishness make people want material items, while generosity can lead to just the opposite. Greed is one of the main reasons people feel the need to have material objects, and “The Necklace,” by Guy de Maupassant is an example of just that. Mathilde, the main character, valued luxurious items so that she could seem wealthy to others. When her and her husband get invited to a formal event for work, she wishes to look as elegant as she can. Although Mathilde

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    “Useless Beauty” is a short story by one of the most admired nineteenth century French novelist and short story writer Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893). He is deemed one of the modern masters of the art of the short story and has influenced practitioners of that genre from his time to the present. This story was featured in Original Short Stories Volume 6 of 13 published by Alfred A. Knopf in New York in 1926. Known for its realism, simplicity, and directness, Maupassant’s fiction addresses the theme

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    "Sitting around miserable all day will [not] make you any happier" is a famous quote once said by John Boyne in the book named The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. In the short story, "The Necklace", by Guy de Maupassant, Madame Liosel shows how ungrateful she always is and how she is never satisfied. Although that is what she showed throughout the whole story, she eventually changed her ways. Madame Liosel wants luxurious things, but can not afford them because of her social status. She borrows a necklace

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    While reading “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant I came across many different literary devices that contribute to the multiple themes of the short story. The first theme I noticed was deceptiveness. Mathilde claims that she feels that she isn't born for the life of poverty. That her current life isn't the one she should be living, evidence of this can be found in the first paragraph “The girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes is born, as if by a slip of fate, into

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    Selfishness in The Necklace by Maupassant In Guy de Maupassant's, "The Necklace" all the characters in the story exhibit similar behavior by showing that they think of themselves rather than of others. A close look at the behavior of the characters in "The Necklace" reveals more than a story about a spoiled selfish woman, but what we see is a story about a whole society of selfish people. In "The Necklace" a woman named Mathilde lives a depressed life because she

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