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    Maupassant, a girl named Mathilde dreams to be a part of the upper class. She nearly goes crazy when she is married off to a poor man, M. Loisel. Though she cannot afford the luxuries of life, she comes across an extravagant diamond necklace that changes everything. The necklace serves as a symbol for Mathilde's hopes and dreams and the cost of deception conveying the theme that you cannot change who you really are. At the beginning of the story, the necklace represents

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    Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant is about a pretty girl named Mathilde Loisel who is born into a family of clerks. She is married to a minor clerk in the Ministry of Education. Mathilde Loisel’s husband brings her an invitation to attend an evening reception because she is always gloomy and sad. For the party, she buys a new dress and borrows a beautiful necklace from her friend Madame Forestier. When she comes home from the party, Mathilde realizes that the necklace is not on her. The author uses diction

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    Agamvir Anand Professor Tyler Evans English 101 September 3rd 2015 Greed and Pride: The Biggest Destructors In the text “The Necklace” Guy de Maupassant illustrates the destructive capacity of greed through Mathilde Loisel, a beautiful and charming lady born in a family of low economic status. She dreams of big and beautiful things far beyond her reach. She is married to a clerk who works in the Ministry of Education and cannot fulfill all her wants. She doesn’t like to visit her friends because

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    strengthens Mathilde’s internal conflict about being in a lower class. Guy de Maupassant uses a third person limited narrator to characterize the depressed, ungrateful character, Mathilde, who is consumed with envy. Mathilde is described as pessimistic and jealous of wealthy, elegant women. Beautiful Mathilde Loisel was born into a family of clerks, and her utter conviction that her place in life is a mistake of destiny leads her to live her life in a constant rebellion against her circumstances

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    conspicuous leisure time that forms the central conflict in the "comedy in one act." Clearly Henri and Jeanne are of the upper class or bourgeoisie. On the contrary, Mathilde and her husband are of the working class and by the end of the story are outright poor. Their socio-economic class status adds tension and a unique dynamic to the Loisel relationship, as it helps to define the protagonists' characters. Therefore, gender norms and socio-economic class define the couples and the individual characters

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    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 was a clerk in the ministry of education, who was

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    in 1880 Mathilde Loisel discovers she has lost the necklace she has to find a way to replace it leaving her worse than she already was. The theme of the story is pride. The two elements are conflict and mood. The first element is conflict. Mathilde loses the diamond necklace on the way home from the party. "I have...I have...I no longer have the Madame Forestier's necklace." Now she has to find a way how to tell her friend and figure out how she's going to pay for the necklace. Mathilde spends the

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    situational irony to create the effect of pity. Mathilde wants to be the richest of the rich, and ends up being the poorest of the poor. Even though Mathilde lived a comfortable middle class life she felt as though she deserved more. “She suffered endlessly, feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury,” (1) so when Loisel, her husband, gets the two of them invited to a fancy gathering,

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    So therefore, someone like Mrs. Loisel whose family were artisans who are known as someone who practices a trade or handicraft. They were considered as the lowest on the social ladder, it was unlikely that Mathilde would have the finest things she so desires. Even though Mathilde wants to be associated with a higher class so badly, she was aware that switching rarely happens. Therefore, she had no other choice than marry within her class. She married Mr. Loisel, a man who was employed as a clerk

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    however in the story “The Ransom of Red Chief”, the author uses situational irony to create a humorous effect. Throughout Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace”, situational irony is used to create the feeling of desire in the story. For example, Madame Loisel wishes that she could be rich, but to the reader's

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