In both the Hemingway and Maupassant stories, the couples face a crisis, which puts them in difficult situations. In Maupassant's " The Necklace" (1884), the couple goes out and the wife borrows some jewels from a friend. After they return from the ball she notices that the jewels are missing from around her neck. The couple goes out to find the jewels, but they were nowhere to be found. Her husband takes all the money he was given from his father when he died, and borrows some from some of the townspeople to buy a replacement of the necklace. To pay off their debts to the townspeople they gave free labor. In Hemingway's " Hills Like White Elephants" (1927), the couples situation is they are about to go and get an abortion done, but the two individuals do not know whether or not if they want to go through with it. Also, the girl is not sure if her boyfriend will love her they way he does after the abortion is done.
In " The Necklace" (DeMaupassant, G. 1884), there is no communication in the married couples relationship. There is no communication at times because the wife only talks to her husband when she needs something materialistic. For example, when they were invited to the ball and she said "and what do you want me to put on my back?"; "Nothing. Only I have no dress therefore I can't go to this ball"; "It annoys me not to have a single jewel, not a single stone, nothing to put on." The husband is the only one that shows love in the relationship, he shows he loves her when he takes the money he saved up and spends it on a replacement necklace for the one the wife lost. He also proves that he love her when he spend four hundred francs on a fancy dress for his wife to wear to the ball.
The relationship between this couple is mediocre. It seems that Madame Loisel only wants to impress those around her and higher than her. It is obvious that she is using her husband to buy her the finer things in life, like jewels and fine dresses.
