Essay: Summary: The Neckalce, By Guy De Maupassant

The Necklace Guy De Maupassant

The author Guy De Maupassant ,in his story “The Neckalce”, has described beautifully how greed and deception can turn one’s life upside down. It has mainly depicted the uncertainty of human life Mathilda, a character built with rage, jealousy, dissatisfied with life but blessed with utmost physical beauty, had the constant pain of not having the lavish life like other pretty women. She thought of it as a mistake of destiny and blamed her fate. Although she had a loving husband, a comfortable home she was not content with it. Her desiration for wealth, status has jeopardized her life but in the end, it managed to put her into realization that wealth and beauty is not the source of true happiness.

Mathilda was born in a clerk’s family, but the natural charm and mesmerizing beauty she had, made her always think she should belong in an upper class family. She suffered as if she had been wealthy before. She lived in her own imaginary world where the real life does not match with the ideal life she thinks that she deserves. She was married to a clerk of Board of Education, Mr. Loisel. She was unhappy with her financial condition, she hated that she can’t have the fine jewellery or the fine clothings. In the book we see

But the misery taught Madame Loisel to accept her situation. She was dressing like commoners; she was doing all the household chores without complaining. She was living a poor woman’s life and she accepted it. Because she knew that she has to pay the debt for the necklace. So this misery lasted for ten years when they finally cleared all the debts. It was a huge relief for them. That little incident has shaken her life; she realizes that it losing it was the reason of her misery. This is where she is wrong, instead of thinking that she should be thinking why she borrowed it at the first