The Necklace: Change in Perspective
In The “Necklace”, by Guy de Maupassant, Madame Loisel is a middle class French woman who always wants to look like the rich, and feel like it. So you can imagine she is quite thrilled when her and her husband, Monsieur Loisel, are invited to a ball at the Ministry of Education. Her husband buys her a new dress and her friend Madame Forstier lends her a beautiful diamond necklace, but problems arouse when Mme. Loisel loses the necklace. They buy a new one and it takes 10 years to pay the debts from the 18,000 Francs they were borrowed. Mme. Loisel changes a lot in this time. For example, “She was one of those pretty and charmind girls, born, as if by an accident of fate, into a family of clerks” (Maupassant
In The “Necklace”, by Guy de Maupassant, Madame Loisel is a middle class French woman who always wants to look like the rich, and feel like it. So you can imagine she is quite thrilled when her and her husband, Monsieur Loisel, are invited to a ball at the Ministry of Education. Her husband buys her a new dress and her friend Madame Forstier lends her a beautiful diamond necklace, but problems arouse when Mme. Loisel loses the necklace. They buy a new one and it takes 10 years to pay the debts from the 18,000 Francs they were borrowed. Mme. Loisel changes a lot in this time. For example, “She was one of those pretty and charmind girls, born, as if by an accident of fate, into a family of clerks” (Maupassant