“Honesty is the best policy” is a well-known dictum that everyone has heard and everyone has found conflicting. Mom always said it is true. Not everyone is honest if the truth could cause trouble. Madame Loisel struggles with being honest in the short story “The Necklace.” The author, Guy de Maupassant, displays the reality that honesty really is the best policy in the story through the use of irony.
Mathilde Loisel was embarrassed about being poor, but if she was honest about her wealth she would not have had the initial conflict she had. When her husband suggests wearing natural flowers to the ball rather than diamonds she says,“No; there's nothing more humiliating than to look poor among other women who are rich.” Due to the fact that she
Mathilde Loisel was embarrassed about being poor, but if she was honest about her wealth she would not have had the initial conflict she had. When her husband suggests wearing natural flowers to the ball rather than diamonds she says,“No; there's nothing more humiliating than to look poor among other women who are rich.” Due to the fact that she