“ You are saying that your necklace was worth 500 francs.” Questioning mathilde “ Yes, it was mostly worth nothing.” told Madame Forestier “ All this was for a 500 franc necklace! My husband and I had to buy a smaller house! I had to clean!’’ “ I am so sorry dear. If only you would have told me.” “If only“ Mumbled mathilde under her breath “ I am sorry but i must be going “ said Madame Forestier “ well… alright I need to get back to my husband. It was nice seeing you again.” After Mathilde talked to madame forestier she ran home to tell her husband what madame forestier told her. When mathilde came home she found her tired, ghost like husband. He had just got home from his second job. He had to work so hard to finish paying many …show more content…
loisel “ you know you don’t have to work so hard.” “What do you mean? How much was it worth?” “500 francs.“ “ No, are you joking it can’t be. I just can’t believe it.” “ I am going to talk with madame forestier tomorrow to see if she could help with are money problems.,” Said mathilda. Mathilda and her husband went to bed later that night. Mathilda find herself having trouble sleeping. She was scared that madame forestier would say no and say they lost her necklace so, she gets to keep the one they bought. Mathilde got up the next morning to go see madame forestier. Mathilde said goodbye to her husband. After she left her house she keep trying to see the good side in this. She arrived at madame forestier’s house and waited at the gate she was going to turn around and go home ,but madame forestier saw her waiting at the gate. Now she would have to go and say hello. “ Good morning dear! Madam forestier said with excitement. “Hello, good morning.” Mathilda said with fear “What's wrong with you dear. Are you sick.” “Well … um I wanted to ask you for a favor ?’’ “ Alright dear what’s the
She is getting by in life, isn’t to poor nor overly rich. When her husband gives her an invintation to a very formal ball, she is astonished at the fact that he thinks she can attend in the things she owns. So Madame Loisel goes out and buys a nice dress and borrows jewlrey from her friend. She attends the ball and has a wonderful time. When she arrives how she is horrfied to see that she has lost the diamond necklace that her friend Madame Forestier lent her. After searching for the necklace for hours on end, she buys an expensive replacement and hopes that Madame Forestier won’t notice. After 10 years of hard work, Mathilde and her husband finish paying off the debt of the necklace. Throughout those 10 years, Mathilde saw what it was like to really struggle in life. She realizes that her life before wasn’t all that bad. One day, old and worn down Mathilde sees Madame Forestier in the street. She says hello to her friend and tells her about all the hardships she went to because of the lost necklace. Madame Forestier responds that her necklace was only worth 500 francs at most… way less than what Mathilde had payed for the replacement, and wasn’t even real diamond. This is ironic because Mathilde spent all those years paying of a replacement that was way more money than the original.
Some people in life are never satisfied with the experience given throughout their lifetime. In Guy De Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace,” Madame Mathilde Loisel is burdened by the middle-class life she is living and yearns for a life of luxury and delicacy. Mathilde is ungrateful of her life and her loving husband who helps her replace a lost necklace she selfishly borrowed from a friend in a vain attempt to be the prettiest woman at the ball.
Values are spread all around the world, and many people’s values differ. These can lead to people being judged, or indirectly characterized by other people. In “The Necklace” Mme. Loisel is a beautiful woman with a decent life, and a husband that loves her, and only wants to make her happy. She is not rich but she makes it along, she insists of a better, wealthier life. When her husband gets her invited to a ball, she feels the need for a brand new fancy dress and tons of jewelry. When the couple realizes they cannot afford jewelry as well, they search out to borrow her friend, Mme. Forestiers’ necklace. She comes to notice she no longer has the necklace on when she leaves the ball. This later troubles her, as she has to work for a long time to collect enough money to buy a new necklace. This story describes the relationship between a couple, who have different dreams, and how desires can revamp your life. Guy de Maupassant, the author of “The Necklace” uses literary devices to prove people come before materialistic items.
In the story “The Necklace” the author’s theme is to show us that greed and envy can lead to destruction. In this story Mathilde is a very envious woman whom always dreamed of a life that she could not have. She was very charming and beautiful woman who thought that she must have been born into the wrong life, since she had no way of getting known and married by a rich man.
Mme. Loisel is the protagonist in the short story “The Necklace”. She is a young beautiful woman who feels she has been short changed by her social standing in life. She feels she belongs to a world of wealth and vanity but is relegated to the role of a commoner because of her family heritage. This status continues as “she let herself be married to a little clerk at the Ministry of Public Instructions”.
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
Values are spread all around the world, and many people’s values differ. These can lead to people being judged, or indirectly characterized by other people. In “The Necklace” Mme. Loisel is a beautiful woman with a decent life, and a husband that loves her, and only wants to make her happy. She is not rich but she makes it along, she insists of a better, wealthier life. When her husband gets her invited to a ball, she feels the need for a brand new fancy dress and tons of jewelry. When the couple realizes they cannot afford jewelry as well, they search out to borrow her friend, Mme. Forestiers’ necklace. She comes to notice she no longer has the necklace on when she leaves the ball. This later troubles her, as she has to work for a long time to collect enough money to buy a new necklace. This story describes the relationship between a couple, who have different dreams, and how desires can revamp your life. Guy de Maupassant, the author of “The Necklace” uses literary devices to prove people come before materialistic items.
Around the world, values are expressed differently. Some people think that life is about the little things that make them happy. Others feel the opposite way and that expenses are the way to live. In Guy de Maupassant’s short story, “The Necklace”, he develops a character, Madame Loisel, who illustrates her different style of assessments. Madame Loisel, a beautiful woman, lives in a wonderful home with all the necessary supplies needed to live. However, she is very unhappy with her life. She feels she deserves a much more expensive and materialistic life than what she has. After pitying herself for not being the richest of her friends, she goes out and borrows a beautiful necklace from an ally. But as she misplaces the closest thing she has to the life she dreams of and not telling her friend about the mishap, she could have set herself aside from ten years of work. Through many literary devices, de Maupassant sends a message to value less substance articles so life can be spent wisely.
“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.
Monsieur Loisel used eighteen thousand francs of his inheritance and borrowed the rest to make up thirty six thousand francs to buy the new necklace. Mathilde returns the new necklace to Madame Forestier, and she now has to work hard to repay the borrowed money. They couldn't afford a housekeeper and Mathilde learned to do everything on her own. After ten years they pay off the debt but Matilde is no longer beautiful and young because of all the work and hard labor she put into paying off that necklace. Matilde sees Madame Forestier one afternoon after all the time that past and decides to come clean about everything that happen.The real surprise is when Madame Forestier tells Matilde that Necklace was costume and wasn't worth anything “Oh, my poor Mathilde. But mine were false. At most they were worth five hundred francs!”
Mathilde’s husband realizes that she will not be able to survive this perilous event without him, and he decides to expel his entire inheritance and take loans from anywhere he can find in order to pay for the necklace (72). They sell nearly everything to their name, and Mathilde comes to know both “the horrible existence of the needy” (72), and “what heavy housework meant” (72). What possession she once suffered an undesirable life to acquire, she would now suffer a far worse life paying for. After ten long years of strenuous work, Mathilde’s debts are paid off, but at the price of ten years of her life. Her youthfulness has escaped her through the diligent work; However, she still thinks of that night when she had “been so beautiful and feted” (72), only this time, the readers realize that she has an entirely different clarity about what that night really meant. Mathilde realizes that all of her acts of selfishness and envy, all of the greed and materialistic ideals were harbored into a relatively priceless item that she had given up ten years of her life for. Realizing this, Mathilde gathers the courage to tell Mme. Forestier, who did not even notice Mathilde after the toll that time and labor has taken on her body, about the necklace
As stated by Erich Fromm, "Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.” In the short story, “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, a woman named Mathilde Loisel lives a life of poverty, yet she dreams of being a part of the higher class. Mathilde spends her entire life with a constant need to have more, yet never reaches satisfaction. She goes to a wonderful ball and loses a diamond necklace that her wealthy friend lent her. Mathilde then spends the next ten years of her life paying for the necklace. This story illustrates how one may mask themselves in whatever riches and fancy garments they please, yet their facade eventually disappears and
In the short story “The Necklace”, the main character, Loisel, is a woman who dreams of greater things in her life. She is married to a poor clerk who tries his best to make her happy no matter what. In an attempt to try to bring happiness to his wife, he manages to get two invitations to a very classy ball, but even in light of this Loisel is still unhappy. Even when she gets a new dress she is still unhappy. This lasts until her husband suggests she borrows some jewelry from a friend, and upon doing so she is finally happy. Once the ball is over, and they reach home, Loisel has the horrible realization that she has lost the necklace, and after ten years of hard labor and suffering, they pay off debts incurred to get a replacement. The central idea of this story is how something small can have a life changing effect on our and others life’s. This idea is presented through internal and external conflicts, third person omniscient point of view, and the round-dynamic character of Loisel. The third person limited omniscient point-of-view is prevalent throughout this short story in the way that the author lets the reader only see into the main character’s thoughts. Loisel is revealed to the reader as being unhappy with her life and wishing for fancier things. “She suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born for all the delicacies and all the luxuries.” (de Maupassant 887) When her husband tries to fancy things up, “she thought of dainty dinners, of shining silverware, of tapestry which peopled the walls…” (de Maupassant 887) As the story goes on her point of view changes, as she “now knew the horrible existence of the needy. She took her part, moreover all of a sudden, with heroism.” (de Maupassant 891) Having the accountability to know that the “dreadful debt must be paid.” (de Maupassant 891 ) This point-of-view is used to help the reader gain more insight to how Loisel’s whole mindset is changed throughout her struggle to pay off their debts. Maupassant only reveals the thoughts and feelings of these this main character leaving all the others as flat characters. Loisel is a round-dynamic character in that Maupassant shows how she thought she was born in the wrong “station”. “She dressed plainly because she could not dress well, but she was as unhappy as though she had really fallen from her proper station.
The moral of Guy de Maupassant’s story “The Necklace” seems to be suggested by the line, “What would have happened if Mathilde had not lost the necklace?” If Mathilde had not lost the necklace, or in fact, even asked to borrow the necklace, she and Mr. Loisel would not of been in debt ten long years. Because Mathilde had to borrow the necklace to make herself and others like her better her and Mr. Loisel’s economic situation had become worse than it already was. I think that the moral of the story is that people need to be happy with what they have and not be so greedy.
It took ten years for Mathilde and her husband to pay off the debt of buying a new necklace. Those ten years were not spent with the luxuries she experienced so many years ago at the party, nor were they filled with the simple things she once owned and despised. She came to know “the horrible existence of the needy. She bore her part, however, with sudden heroism.” When passing her rich friend again in the street, she was barely recognizable. Who she was the day she ran into her friend was not who she was the night she wore that necklace.