A Life Experience Life brings us unpredictable situations and the way we respond determines the outcome. When one thinks life cannot be any worse, then that is when life knocks on our door, slaps one on the face, and shows how utterly wrong one is. One should enjoy how they live and be grateful for what they have. Asking for more than one can handle can lead to catastrophic events. Criticizing others for what they do can also lead to damage. Mathilde Loisel from Guy de Maupassant’s short story is similar to Miss Brill from Katherine Mansfield’s story because both value materialistic objects, both detach themselves from reality, and end up teaching a valuable lesson in the closing of the story.
To begin with, Mrs. Loisel and Miss Brill both …show more content…
Loisel and Miss Brill each bring forth a worthy message. Loisel is naïve and puts her wants over other people, especially her husband. After Mr. and Mrs. Loisel get home from the ball, Loisel discovers that she has misplaced the borrowed necklace and has no clue to when the necklace fell from her. Her husband quickly takes action and goes out to find the necklace whereas Mathilde does nothing and stays at home. Her husband seems more worried about the necklace than Mathilde is. After much effort and anxiety, Mr. Loisel is unsuccessful in attaining the lost necklace. Mr. Loisel told his wife to lie to Mrs. Forrestier and say that she was having the necklace repaired. After obtaining a diamond necklace that nearly cost them their lives, Mathilde visits her friend who “does not care even to examine the piece that Mathilde returns to her, suggesting its low value” (Brackett 2). It takes Mr. and Mrs. Loisel ten years to pay off the necklace. Mathilde lost her youth and beauty in the process of undergoing hard core labor. After complaining about how bad of a life she had, Mrs. Loisel gets to experience what an awful living really is. Later on, Mathilde gets to confront Madam Forestier and reveals all the hardships she went through to pay off the diamond necklace. It turns out that the necklace was a fake worth only five hundred francs, instead of the thirty-six thousand francs Mr. and Mrs. Loisel thought it was. All the cruel effort it took to reimburse the …show more content…
Maupassant wrote, “Life is so peculiar, so uncertain. How little a thing it takes to destroy you or save you” (12). Mathilde questions how life would have been like if she had never lost the necklace. Here one can extract the fact that lying leads to dire consequences and everything does not seem as what it appears to be. Moving to Miss Brill, Mansfield finished the story by stating, “when she put the lid on she thought she heard something crying” (221). Miss Brill imagines the fur to be weeping and this signifies the fact that Miss Brill will no longer fake happiness. She will know experience real anguish and despair. White expresses, “Miss Brill’s life tends toward a moment in which she can no longer deny the reality she so greatly fears” (3). One cannot run away from the truth. It will eventually catch up and hurt more than it intended to. Even though both stories are fictions, they hold very real experiences that could have actually taken
To begin with, Mrs. Loisel and Miss Brill both …show more content…
Loisel and Miss Brill each bring forth a worthy message. Loisel is naïve and puts her wants over other people, especially her husband. After Mr. and Mrs. Loisel get home from the ball, Loisel discovers that she has misplaced the borrowed necklace and has no clue to when the necklace fell from her. Her husband quickly takes action and goes out to find the necklace whereas Mathilde does nothing and stays at home. Her husband seems more worried about the necklace than Mathilde is. After much effort and anxiety, Mr. Loisel is unsuccessful in attaining the lost necklace. Mr. Loisel told his wife to lie to Mrs. Forrestier and say that she was having the necklace repaired. After obtaining a diamond necklace that nearly cost them their lives, Mathilde visits her friend who “does not care even to examine the piece that Mathilde returns to her, suggesting its low value” (Brackett 2). It takes Mr. and Mrs. Loisel ten years to pay off the necklace. Mathilde lost her youth and beauty in the process of undergoing hard core labor. After complaining about how bad of a life she had, Mrs. Loisel gets to experience what an awful living really is. Later on, Mathilde gets to confront Madam Forestier and reveals all the hardships she went through to pay off the diamond necklace. It turns out that the necklace was a fake worth only five hundred francs, instead of the thirty-six thousand francs Mr. and Mrs. Loisel thought it was. All the cruel effort it took to reimburse the …show more content…
Maupassant wrote, “Life is so peculiar, so uncertain. How little a thing it takes to destroy you or save you” (12). Mathilde questions how life would have been like if she had never lost the necklace. Here one can extract the fact that lying leads to dire consequences and everything does not seem as what it appears to be. Moving to Miss Brill, Mansfield finished the story by stating, “when she put the lid on she thought she heard something crying” (221). Miss Brill imagines the fur to be weeping and this signifies the fact that Miss Brill will no longer fake happiness. She will know experience real anguish and despair. White expresses, “Miss Brill’s life tends toward a moment in which she can no longer deny the reality she so greatly fears” (3). One cannot run away from the truth. It will eventually catch up and hurt more than it intended to. Even though both stories are fictions, they hold very real experiences that could have actually taken