In Guy de Maupassant's, "The Necklace", creates in Malthlide Loisel, the main character, a self-absorbed wife who feels as though she deserves the world at any cost and how she faces the consequences of her selfishness. Inevitably, her self-centeredness causes her to become blind to the real world that surrounds her, making her forget her social and financial position. Malthlide the housewife of a clerk, never had lived a life of riches, but it was the one thing she yearned for more than anything. She disregarded all of the arduous sacrifices her loving husband achieved for her. With absolute conceit she looked at life with a bleak and an unhappy outlook for her life and the future she would live. Mme. Loisel does nothing to make her position in society any better; instead she does the opposite with her constant false pride and manipulation of her hardworking husband. The stories" main focus is how Malthlide's childish personality causes her to live a life of poverty and a corroded dream. .
At the begging of the story, the negativity and selfishness Mme. Loisel irradiates are reflected in her useless day dreams of a life she couldn't even live in dreams. The author shows how shallow the she is when he says that, "she let herself be married to a little clerk." (Maupassant 177) The narrator's description of Malthlide sets a tone of misfortune as though the reader should feel sorry for Malthlide. .
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She hates everything about her life and the reader's pity for her turns to a feeling of disgust because of her constant unhappiness. .
In some ways she knows that she will never be able to move up in society but she chooses to feel as though she is "suffered from poverty of her dwelling." which " tortured her and made her angry." (Maupassant 178) These foolish and troubling feelings are the main cause of the stories eventual conflict which is foreshadowed by the characters upsetting actions throughout the begging.
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...
