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    “The Necklace” Guy de Maupassant, the author of “The Necklace”, describes how Mme. Mathilde Loisel’s attitude, appearance, and perspective on life changes. Her life is drastically changed when she borrows a necklace from a friend and loses it. In the beginning of the story, Mme. Loisel is somewhat snobby. She always wishes for more money and nice things from her husband. She expects him to pay for everything and buy her what she wants. “She grieved incessantly, feeling that she had been born for

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    character traits of Mathilde Loisel in Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace” and Louise Mallard in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,” however; there are subtle differences between the two women. Both of these protagonists struggle with their fate, are self-centered, and lack empathy. Their lives are destined to end in their own tragic ways based on their individual character flaws. Both of these stories focus on women who struggle with their lifestyle conditions. Mrs. Loisel cannot bear her

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    170 2. The ending sentence of the story is ironic because, when leading up to it, it is established that Mathilde Loisel spent ten years of her life paying back debt. This debt, of coarse, being from having to buy a new necklace after losing the one that she borrowed from Mme. Forestier. The ending is ironic because it tells the reader that the original necklace was fake and that Mathilde Loisel had basically just wasted ten years of her life working very hard at bad jobs to pay for something that

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    Necklace” written by Guy de Maupassant the main character, Mathilde, changes throughout the story from beginning to end. In the beginning of the story the author shows the reader that Mathilde is a pretty and charming girl, but also that she is an ungrateful woman. Mathilda is always upset because she has no fancy clothes, jewelry, and because she claims to be poor “She had no evening clothes, no jewels, nothing” (p. 226). Mathilda’s husband, Loisel, brings an invitation to a party from The Minister Of

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    shows both of these. You are shown a beautiful woman named Mathilde Loisel who is greedy and thinks she deserves more than she has. Her husband knows this and takes her to an expensive ball. She had borrowed a diamond necklace from her friend only to lose it late in the night. Mathilde Loisel and her husband go deeply into debt to replace the necklace and must work for ten years to pay off the debt. Once the debt is paid Mathilde Loisel tells her friend and learns that the original necklace was sixty

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    In the short story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, the protagonist identified as Mathilde Loisel is a dynamic character who evolves from someone who is unaccepting of her socio-economic class to someone who is accepting of her socio-economic class. In the beginning, Mathilde looks around her house before having dinner with her husband and she does not enjoy what she sees. After noticing the dirty walls, worn-out chairs and ugly curtains and all the other hideous features and furniture of her

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    In de Maupassant's Necklace, Mathilde and her husband are dissimilar in character. Mathilde Loisel, a wife of a clerk, is very discontent and unloving to her husband Monsieur Loisel. She refers to her husband as “... a little clerk…”(1). This demeans her spouse and her lifestyle that he provides that is not quite desirable seem much more tragic and troublesome. Mathilde also thinks that her husband is not enough for her and longs for a richer husband. Not only that, she also desires to be lusted

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    in The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant The author of "The Necklace", Guy de Maupassant, relates the setting to Mathilde throughout the story. The central character in "The Necklace" is Mathilde. She dreams many dreams of rich living and high society. Her dwellings throughout "The Necklace" show her mood towards the way she is forced to live. Mathilde marries Mr. Loisel, a minor clerk in the Ministry of Education. She becomes unhappy with the way she has to live. "She suffered because

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    The Necklace Irony

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    story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant it is ironic how in the end Madame Loisel worked for ten years for to pay off the necklace which only costed five hundred francs. Mathilde was a beauty, who did not feel fulfilled in the life she was living. She constantly complained about the life she lived. She wanted a life of luxuries, but Monsieur Loisel Could not afford the way way she wanted to live. Mathilde spends so much of her time worrying about what she does not have, and she

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