Literary Realism In The Necklace By Maupassant

As writer in 19th-century in France, Maupassant writes in a style called Literary Realism. The clearest example of this style comes in the final third of the story, when he describes the poor, working lives of the Loisel’s. Mathilde, a young woman is born to a low-class family. With no money for a dowry, she is married to Monsier Loisel, a clerk from the board of education. In the story Mathilde is ashamed of her economic status and wished she had been born into an upper-class family. Mathilde is unhappy in her marriage and hates that she lacks the finer things in life like expensive clothes, jewelry, and house. The narrator reveals her feeling in the being of the story when it said “She suffered endlessly, feeling she was entitled to all the delicacies and luxuries of life. She suffered because of the poorness of her house as she looked at the dirty walls, the worn-out chairs and the ugly curtains. All these things that another woman of her class would not even have noticed, tormented her and made her resentful.” (The Necklace) Mathilde was not only hate-filled with her incapacity to improve her economic status, but the Loisel also value different things, with those values going along gender lines.
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