In the short story “The Necklace” the author Guy de Maupassant Puts MMe. Loisel in a lot of problems and she has to figure out way to get out of them. MMe. Loisel goes through a lot of problems but I’m only going to tell you three of them and how MMe. Loisel Finds ways to fix them. The first one is that she was very unhappy with her life so her husband get an invitation to a dance. The second one is that she didn't have a dress to wear to the dance. So MMe. Loisel husband gives her four hundred francs to buy a new one. The third one was even though she got the new dress she was still sad because she didn't have a gem or jewels to wear with it. So MMe. Loisel goes and asks a close friend to lend her some. “At the beginning MMe. Loisel was very disappointed in life.”MMe. Loisel was a beautiful woman, but …show more content…
Loisel replied with “ What do you think I have to go in.” MMe. Loisel husband “hadn’t given that a thought.” So he suggested that MMe. Loisel wears the dress that they go to theater in.”Thats looks quite nice, I think.” Then ‘He stopped talking, dazed and distracted to see his wife burst out weeping.” MMe. Loisel husband asks whats wrong. Then “by sheer willpower she overcame her outburst and answered in a calm voice while wiping the tears from her wet cheek, Oh nothing. Only I don’t have an evening dress and therefor I can’t go to that affair. Give the card to some friend in the office whose wife can dress better then I can.”So he asked “let's see Mathilde. How much would a suitable outfit cost- one you could wear for other affairs too- something very simple?” MMe. Loisel took a little bit to reply but finally said “four hundred francs.” When she said that all the color dranined from her husband face. The ression for that was he was saving up to buy a new hunting rifle to go hunting with all his friends this summer, but he gladly gave her the money to make her happy. So she went and bought a beautiful dress. When she got the dress she was happy with
In the short story, “The Necklace,” a greedy and selfish woman brings financial ruin upon herself and her husband. They go from a comfortable lifestyle in a slightly shabby apartment to an impoverished existence in an attic apartment. Mathilde Loisel was born to a lower middle class French family, but she wished that she could have of noble birth. Her longing for a better life caused her great grief. When she could have been happy with her situation in life, instead she would dream of a grand home and wealthy, dignified friends. When she borrowed a diamond necklace from a friend and lost it at an elegant party, she brought downfall to her husband and herself. Not only does Guy de Maupassant use the necklace as a vehicle for the hard times that the Loisels had to endure, but he also uses it as a symbol to teach a lesson about the repercussions of greed, ruin, and regret.
Mathilde Loisel borrows a necklace from her wealthy friend. She loses the necklace and replaces it with a thirty-six thousand francs one. She goes into debt, and ten years later she tells her friend the story of what happened to the original necklace. Then her friend tells her it was a fake and only costed five hundred francs. In this short story, deception is shown through appearance and in actions too.
Instead she married a simple middle class man and lived a middle class life. All the while she dreamed of living the life of the rich. With beautiful gowns and glittering jewelry. Oh how happy she thought she would be. Then one day it happened that she and her husband where invited to a dinner ball. Her husband, Mr. Loisel thought this would make his wife so very happy since this is what she spent all of her time day dreaming of. Here it was, the thing that consumed her finally at her door step, but she was not happy. In fact, Mathilde was even more distraught because it brought to her attention that she had nothing proper to wear. Mr. Loisel sympathized with his wife and knowing he had money set aside for a new shot gun, he gave her 400 francs. This was enough money for a pretty dress, not too fancy, but pretty because he knew this would be a rare occasion.
...ame Loisel comprehends the meaning of humility. Prior to the necklace Mathilde lived the life of princess in a working class home fantasizing of "thought of dainty dinners, of shining silverware". After the necklace, Mathilde has metamorphosed into a determined woman who fights hard for her bread. Every so often she experiences her past daydreams but these have matured into objective and rational queries. Rather than crying and complaining she ponders upon a rational thought of her past life, this example of free indirect discourse gives us an insight into her more mature thoughts,"What would have happened if she had not lost that necklace? Who knows? who knows? How strange and changeful is life!". Madame Loisel develops a positive mindset and embraces failure as a lesson of life. Humbled by the events, she is truly a transformed lady.
Details about the modest apartment of the Loisels on the Street of Martyrs indicate Mathilde’s peevish lack of adjustment to life. Though everything is serviceable, she is unhappy with the “drab” walls, “threadbare” furniture, and “ugly” curtains (5). She has domestic help, but she wants more servants than the simple country girl who does the household chores in the apartment. Her embarrassment and dissatisfaction are shown by details of her irregularly cleaned tablecloth and the plain and inelegant beef stew that her husband adores. Even her best theater dress, which is appropriate for apartment life but which is inappropriate for more wealthy surroundings, makes her unhappy. All these details of the apartment establish that Mathilde’s major trait at the story’s beginning is maladjustment. She therefore seems unpleasant and unsympathetic.
Because Madame Loisel was blessed with beauty, but she “had no fine dresses, no jewels, nothing. Yet luxury was all she cared about; she felt that she had been born for it. She wanted so much to give pleasure, to be envied, to be alluring and admired” and longed for a wealthy life, she wanted to dress like the wealthy when given the chance to mingle among them, but Madame Loisel believes she might be able to find a “suitable dress...for four hundred
At the beginning of the story, “The Necklace” Madame Loisel was young, beautiful, and had a loving husband, but was very concerned about her looks, reputation, and status. She wishes for an elegant upper class life and longs to have much more than she does. The story starts off by telling about the beauty and youthfulness of Loisel, “ She was one of
The short story "The Necklace" recounts the unfortunate downfall of Mme. Loisel. A meager housewife with a royal sense of self-worth, Mme. Loisel is discontent with her lowly social status. When her husband does his best to give her a place in society by getting her an invitation to an important ball, Mme. Loisel allows her excitement to give way to pride. She refuses to attend without a new dress and a loaned necklace, a symbol for Mme. Loisel’s assumptions about status based on appearance. Unfortunately, Mme. Loisel loses the necklace at the ball and with the jewels goes the Loisels’ life savings as reparations for the jewels that Mme. Loisel assumed were priceless when in fact, the necklace was a fake. “The Necklace” serves as a cautionary
Most people would say a woman's best friend is jewelry, it makes women feel special, and gives them attention. In “The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant, there is a young, married girl named Madame Loisel, who believes she deserves everything. All Madame wants is to have everything a wealthy women would have.
Loisel repaid the necklace together with their sweat and tears. Mathilde didn’t have a choice; she had to change from a vain, ungrateful, material, bored wife, into a hardworking proud and loving wife. She even says, right before she runs into Mme. Forestier, “What would have happened if she had not lost that necklace? Who knows? Who knows? How life is strange and changeful! How little a thing is needed for us to be lost or to be saved!”(39) In that quote I saw 2 things, when she asked herself what would have happened if she didn’t lose the necklace, she doesn’t go into some fairytale about what life she could be living, she just accepts what she is now, even if it’s not the easiest life in the world. At the very end of that quote “How little a thing is needed for us to be lost or to be saved!”(39) The fact that she added “or to be saved!” to her thought, tells me that she realizes that she was vain and unappreciated and that she lacked character, but now she is grateful, even though it was such a terrible thing, she was grateful that she was able to say that she was a better person now, even after everything that happened to her than she ever “dreamed” of being before. Guy de Maupassant certainly described a very difficult hardship for Mathilde in “The Necklace” but in the end, everything that happened to her, made her a much better and stronger woman inside and out. This story teaches a very important lesson, you have no idea what you can do and who you can become, until your chips are down and you’re put between a rock and a hard
After reading The Necklace, by Guy De Maupassant, I came to the conclusion that Madame Mathilde Loisel’s husband is very selfless due to the ways he tries to satisfy his wife. Despite the fact that Monsieur Loisel is very content with his normal lifestyle, he struggles to cope with his wife’s snotty behavior and strives to appease her. For example, Monsieur Loisel reads Mathilde the respectable invite from the Minster of Education— which she initially wanted to turn down— and soon has to attempt to conciliate his rather acrimonious spouse who did not want to attend without fine clothing and jewelry. As a result, he “gives... [her] four hundred francs... to buy a nice dress.” –Pg 162. Putting Madame Loisel’s desires before his own, he sacrifices
“The Necklace” is about a woman of lower class who wants to become different than her true self. At this ball, she acts to be someone who is wealthy for the night to impress those around her because everything for her seems to be about money and fame. The song, “Just a Girl” relates to the story because it shows how she let the money get to her, what she is like when she sees her old friend after many harsh years, what her husband thinks of her, and lastly how she confused where she stood in the class systems.
...re the human behaviors of an unappreciative and broken lifestyle. Together the two look up the the high class and luxury lifestyle with beliefs that they deserve to be apart of it. Taking advantage and looking past the hard working families that they come from, they force themselves to live miserable lives that others dream of. Both authors use a specific detail that the characters lives through to find happiness in their illusive lifestyles; For Mathilde is the diamond necklace, and for Paul is the escape to the theatre arts. Mathilde and Paul were both ashamed of their belongings and where they come from, but both collected joy from societies mistaken vision of the wealth that they portrayed. Although both characters had minor human behaviors that varied, Mathilde and Paul both shared the desire for the aristocratic lifestyle which fundamentally dilapidated them.
Immediately, Mathilde realises necklace is not on her neck anymore it is lost. They checked the cab, but could not find it. Monsieur follows there step back, but unfortunately he could not find it. They decide to go to the jewelry store and look for similar diamond necklace Mathilde Loisel was wearing. De Maupassant let 's reader know the price of Necklace, “ The price was forty thousand francs. The store will let them have it for thirty-six thousand” ( Maupassant 177 ). Monsieur made some arrangement for the money. He had Eighteen thousand franc which his father gave to him and the rest he had to borrow from other people and promised to pay them as early as possible and with a healthy interest rate. They successfully replace the new necklace and went to Mathilde friend 's house to return it. give to her friend. And start paying up people they loaned money
The night of the ball came and Mathilde looked great; everyone admired her. The evening ended and everyone went home. Mathilde decided that she would look at herself in the mirror one last time before getting out of the clothes. When she did, she noticed the necklace that she admired so much was gone. Mathilde and her husband had to borrow thirty-six thousand francs from people they knew to buy another just like it so they could return it to the friend. Mathilde and her husband were deeply in debt. For ten years they worked day in and day out until finally the debt was paid off.