The Necklace

life for material things? In “The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant, a woman named Mathilde puts a necklace above everything, and ends up losing it all. The theme of “The Necklace” is to always focus on what you have more than what you want. Mathilde was too focused on looking good and having fancy things to appreciate what she had. This leads to her losing a precious diamond necklace that she borrowed from a friend. Mathilde works for 10 long years to pay off the necklace. She loses what little she had

In Guy De Maupassant’s “The Necklace” a couple faces the struggles of materialistic envy. Mathilde’s desire for a more lavish and luxurious lifestyle and her husband’s attempt to give that to her bring out emotions that ultimately strengthen their relationship. Believing that she is deserving of a higher social rank, Mathilde refuses to embrace her lesser lifestyle that her husband provides. Her envy for materialism shows great threat to her marriage as well as to her pride. Maupassant’s story explains

The most enticing story we have read thus far in this English class has been “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant. The main conflict in this story is the struggle the main character, Mathilde, faces after she has lost jewelry she had borrowed from her much richer friend. The conflicts Mathilde faces in “The Necklace” are both internal and external conflicts. The internal conflict that Mathilde faces is the struggle she has with herself concerning her social standing

“The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant displays a critical view of the materialistic ways which society forces upon women. During the late 1800’s, wealth and social status defined a person. Mathilde Loisel, a middle-class woman, is not content with her social status. She has dreams of being wealthy and having a plethora of riches. Through the use of irony and tragedy in the life of Mathilde Loisel, Maupassant displays the harsh realities behind materialism. While focusing on the disappointments in Mathilde’s

In life, we often want what we can’t have, and this causes us to overlook what we do have and bring out the worst in ourselves. In the short story “The Necklace” written by Guy de Maupassant, the author writes about a beautiful young woman who wants more than what she has. Madame Loisel would be described as beautiful, young lady who lives in France in the late eighteenth century. She is a middle class women women who feels displeased with her life. Madame Loisel was born to a poor family which later

In the story The Necklace, by Guy de Maupassant, the main character Mathilde makes a very bad choice when asking her friend to borrow a necklace, and then lying to her. This is because of two poor decisions. First, she lost it, and second, it wasn't even a real diamond necklace. Toward the end of the story, we find out that as she gets home she cannot find the necklace. A quote on page four proves this by saying, “I-I-I have not Mne. foresters diamond necklace.” (Maupassant, 4) This explains that

The Meaningless Pursuit In the short story “The Necklace,” Mathilde Loisel is a middle-class women that believes she is entitled to a much grander life than her own. Although she has everything she needs to be happy, a loving husband, a home, and food on the table, she is still not satisfied with her life. She is consistently jealous of her close friend, Madame Forestier, and wishes her friend’s life to be her own. The story describes Mathilde as being a generally attractive woman but her beauty

to the ball in town, she is faced with a couple of problems. She believes that she would not look as good as the other women at the dance, because she did not have any beautiful gowns to wear. Some conflicts that occur to Mathilde throughout The Necklace, are not having a nice dress to wear to the ball, not

An analysis that can be drawn from the main characters of “The Dancer” by Bashir Sakhawarz and “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant are the similar aspects of aspiring to be wealthy and aging prematurely due to excessive work loads while the contrasting aspects between the characters are their different motivations behind wanting to attain wealth and the type of work that caused their premature aging. Through the main characters, Madame Loisel and the Queen of Akram, these analyses are made possible;

The theme for “The Necklace,” a short story by Guy de Maupassant, is “Always be grateful for what you have because you never know what you have until you lose it.” This theme fits “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, because it shows how the main character did not appreciate what she had, instead she wished for more and constantly compared herself to the rich lifestyle that she obsessed over and wished was her own. The first quote “I’ll look like a pauper: I’d almost rather not go to that party”