Mathilde was a pretty, charming woman who was born in a family of clerk. She wished to marry a rich man, but she let herself be married to a little clerk at the Ministry of Public Instruction.
She suffered a lot because she was poor. She felt that she was born for all the delicacies and the luxuries. She suffered from all what she had had. The look of the walls, chairs, curtains made her angry. She had no dresses and no jewels and she loved nothing but that. She liked to please, to be envied, to be charming and to be sought after. .
She had a rich friend, but she didn't like to see her any more because she suffered so much when she came back.
One evening, her husband came with an invitation to a party in the Palace of the Ministry of Instruction.
Her husband thought that she would be happy, but she was sad because she didn't has a suitable dress. Her husband told her that he would buy a new one for her "Come, let us see, Mathilde. How much does would it cost? A suitable dress which you could use on other occasions, something very simple." She wanted four hundred francs and she got them. .
The day of the ball was very near, her dress was ready but she was sad. She told her husband "It annoys me not to have a single jewel, not a single stone, nothing to put on. I shall look like distress. I should almost rather not go at all.".
Her husband reminded her that her rich friend Mme.Forestier had many jewels and she can ask her to lend her some of her jewels.
The next day, she went to her friend, which gave her a box of jewels and let her choose what she wanted. She took a necklace of diamonds and was very happy.
When she went to the ball she was elegant, gracious, smiling, crazy of joy and the prettiest. All the men looked at her even the minister himself. She danced, drank and forgot everything. She was happy for her beauty and success.
At four o'clock in the morning, she left the ball with her husband. When they reached their house, she discovered that she had lost the necklace.
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. ...
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...
