Madame Loisel spent her entire life wanting to be among the higher society. Living as she did was some how beneath her. She was beautiful and clever and thought she deserved more. The invitation is the central symbol that gives Madame Loisel the temptation she needs to finally join the people she so much admires. The invitation provides temptation to buy new clothing and to borrow the necklace that ultimately becomes the downfall of the Loisel household. She was a woman consumed with material things "she had neither frocks nor jewels, nothing. And she loved only those things." After receiving the invitation she is tempted into "a desire to please, to be sought after, to be clever, and courted." (32) She could not attend the ball as her true self. She needed to be dressed as if she belonged there, if she was not truly a clerk's wife. She was granted the opportunity by the invitation. Her husband and good friend provided her with the attire she needed. At the ball she was "intoxicated with pleasure". She was admired and sought after. "She was the prettiest of all, elegant, gracious, smiling, and full of joy." (34) But, she was not true to herself. She had let the invitation tempt her to be something she was not. The invitation gave way to her "awakened desires".
If the fate of the necklace was different could she have gone back to her husband and small apartment? He was waiting for her in a salon while she indulged her fantasies. No, she would not be able to go back to her previous life once the invitation was responded to. But as fortune was twisted when she was born of common blood, it again kept her from her desire to become someone else. She is a prideful woman and would not let the disaster be known. Thrown into poverty she had never known before, she worked hard to pay the debt. Poverty transformed her, "she had become a strong hard woman, the crude woman of a poor household." (37) With great despair she paid her unnecessary debt.
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. ...
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...
