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"In just a few pages it vividly evokes a situation with which every reader especially female Parisian readers at the time of the Third Republic towards the end of the 19th century could easily identify"(smith). Guy de Maupassant studied with the french writer Gustave Flaubert after his time in the Franco-Prussian War. De Maupassant belived that his work as a writer was to take common occurances and then make it them in too intesting stories about it.His own experience as a minor clerk inspired him to write "The Necklace".This short story tells the story of a women called Mathilde that is maried to a minor clerk that does not make a lot of money.They get invited to a reception were all the rich people in town are going to be, so Mathilde borrows a dimond necklace from an old friend from school and ends up loosing it and having to work very hard to repay her friend only to find out that the necklace is fake. De Maupassant develops his theme of desire in this short story through the use of symbolism,irony and characterization. Diaz Valdes 2 For many years the way one looked was very important but not as much as being rich. Mathilde was a beautiful women but she was not wealthy "She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of artisans." (Maupassant 224) and this made Mathilde want to be a... ... middle of paper ... ... might end up worse. Works Cited Adamson, Donald. “The Necklace: Overview.” Reference Guide to World Literature. Ed. Lesley Henderson. 2nd ed. New York: St. James Press, 1995. Literature Resource Center. Web. 29 Jan. 2014. Bement, Douglas. “The Woof-Plot in ‘The Necklace.’” Weaving the Short Story. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1931. 65-87. Rpt. in Literature Resource Center. Detroit: Gale, 2014. Literature Resource Center. Web. 30 Jan. 2014. Brackett, Virginia. “The Necklace.” Masterplots, Fourth Edition (2010): 1-3. Literary Reference Center. Web. 29 Jan. 2014. De Maupassant, Guy. “The Necklace.” 1990. Holt McDOUGAL Literature grade 9. Common core ed. N.p.: Holt McDOUGAL, n.d. 224-33. Print. Smith, Christopher. “The Necklace: Overview.” Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Noelle Watson. Detroit: St. James Press, 1994.Literature Resource Center. Web. 30 Jan. 2014.

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