Everybody wants to be adored by others or better yet, to be envived by .
others and desiring for the luxuries makes a person unhappy. In "The Necklace", Maupassant describes a woman who makes herself unhappy. Mathilde is unadmirable character. First, she does not appreciate what she has; also, she is self centered; and, finally she becomes the author of her own destruction.
To begin with, Mathalide does not appreciate what she has. She expects more than .
she has, even though she has everything that any middle class woman can ask for. "She [is] as .
unhappy as if she [has] gone through bankruptcy, for women have neither rank her race." (Pg. .
11) She lives for her unrealistic dreams, which are "expensive banquets and "silent anterooms".
Dreaming of expensive surroundings makes her more frustrated because she can not act like her .
rich friend. She just want to show her friends that she is so rich and happy, even though she is .
happy right now with what she has but she can not see all those happiness. However, she has .
not adjusted to her status, even the picture is clear to her of belonging to middle class. Her .
husband is a clerk and he can not afford all her expensive dreams. Instead of encouraging him .
or telling him that she is happy with him, she complains about the everything all the time, not having a high soceity living style. When he tells her that they are invited to the ball and how hard it is to get that invitation, she refuses to go because she does not have a fancy dress. She does not understand her husband's feelings and desires. How much he cares about her. It seems that relationship does not matter to her. She lives for herself.
After the invitation incident he tries to fulfill her dreams. Rather than conforting him or realizing him that how great husband he is, she makes an other excuse not having a nice necklace. She is so selfish always thinks about herself. Finally she borrows a necklace from her friend and start dreaming about the ball.
Forrestier that she lost her necklace. ... Forrestier's necklace. ... Forrestier that she lost her necklace, so she goes and replaces the necklace. ... Contributing to the irony is the borrowed necklace. ... They secure the thirty-six thousand for the necklace from Mr. ...
To Mme Loisel, this necklace represented the life that she didn't have and so desperately wanted. After she discovered the necklace had been lost, her whole life was changed. ... Even though Mme Loisel didn't find out until the end of the story, the necklace was a fake. It wasn't the necklace that made her feel that she truly fit in; it was her frame of mind. The necklace, even though merely worth anything, had allowed Mme. ...
"The Necklace" The theme of Guy de Maupassant story "The Necklace" seems to be suggested by the line, "What would have happened if Mathilde had not lost the necklace?". ... Under all the other pieces of jewelry lied a diamond necklace. ... The entire way home she dazzled the necklace. ... Weeks went by and no trace of the necklace showed up. ... Mithilde put the new necklace in a box and gave it to her friend. ...
Still wanting, she asks to borrow a necklace from a rich friend, Mrs. ... When they finally leave and return home, she takes off her shawl and realizes that the necklace is gone: " The necklace was no longer around her neck" (paragraph 61). ... Forrestier that the necklace is broken so that he can have time to replace it. ... Mathilde tells her the truth and finds out that the necklace was nothing more than costume jewelry. Mathilde then begins to wonder what life would have been like without the necklace: "What would life have been like if she had not lost the necklace" (paragraph 105)? ...
She went the next day and took the most expensive looking necklace that was there. ... She realised that she had lost the necklace. ... They finally got thirty six thousand francs and bought the necklace. ... Ten years later they went back to their friend and confessed to losing the necklace. ... The fact that her friend gave her and trusted her with the necklace gives her a right to know about the lost necklace before she got the replacement. ...
In "The Necklace", Mathlid Loisel wants to look and be successful anyway she can. Mathlid Loisel borrows a necklace for one night and loses it; she is forced to pay for it for the next ten years. ... Mathlide Loisel realizes that she had been relativity successful after losing the necklace. The theme of the necklace is that sometimes you are more successful than you may think. ... Therefore, in "The Necklace and Kindly unhitch the Star, Buddy, we see many examples of success. ...
She took a necklace of diamonds and was very happy. ... When they reached their house, she discovered that she had lost the necklace. ... He told her that they must think how to replace that necklace. Next day they went to many jewelers searching for a similar necklace and they found a necklace, which looked exactly like the one they looked for. ... Mathilde went to her because she wanted to tell the truth about the necklace. ...
Once home Madame realized the necklace was not around her neck. ... Loisel borrowed the money to replace the necklace. ... "The Necklace." ... Once home Madame realized the necklace was not around her neck. ... Loisel borrowed the money to replace the necklace. ...
The Necklace At the beginning of the story the "The Necklace" the author De Maupassant illustrates that the main character Mathilde is poor and discontent with her life. ... Forrestier's necklace plays an active role in Mathilde's pride. ... Forrestier that she had lost her necklace, so she would rather replace it than anything else. Her pride will not let her stoop so low into apologizing and instead her pride tells her that she is capable of replacing the necklace, so she goes and replaces the missing necklace. ... Throughout the story "The Necklace," Mathilde Loisel's...
