Madame Loisel’s Misfortune
Through the story “The Necklace”, Guy De Maupassant presents the character of Madame Mathilde Loisel. One evening, Loisel’s husband brings home and invitation to a ball and to the reader’s surprise, Loisel is angry; questioning, “And what do you suppose I am to wear at such an affair.” Likewise, her husband gives her 400 francs to appease her displeasure and buy a new dress. Not long after Madame Loisel bought the dress pleasing to her, Loisel would rather not go to the ball when realizes she does not have a jewel to wear with the dress in support of her rich disguise. After prying more at her husband about the jewel problem, Monsieur Loisel suggests borrowing them from Madame Forestier. Madame Loisel, pleased by …show more content…
Throughout the story, her husband is constantly doing things for her, yet she is always dissatisfied. When Madame Loisel exclaims to him that she doesn’t have a dress for the ball, he forfeits the 400 francs he had been saving for a gun. To his demise she states, “I’m utterly miserable at not having any jewels, not a single stone to wear… I would almost rather not go to the party.” Furthermore, Loisel’s husband tells her to just borrow jewels from her close friend, and so she did. Later on, on the night of the ball she loses that very necklace and doesn’t want to face her friend after such an expensive loss. Monsieur Loisel in response to his wife’s grief goes about getting loans to buy a replacement. Due to Madame Loisel having to look rich for the ball, her husband suffered a great debt and was shackled into poverty trying to help her feel classy. Clearly, one can see that she had a lack of appreciation toward her husband because not once did she show gratitude while condemning him to such …show more content…
Loisel couldn’t appreciate her husband giving her 400 francs to buy a dress let alone that he was taking her to a ball, for which she had to have the expensive dress. Rather than being satisfied by what she had and wear flowers (which Monsieur Loisel had suggested), Loisel continued her insatiable nature when her dress wasn’t enough to attend the ball, requiring to have jewels as well. Furthermore, Loisel in her big-headedness, spent ten years in attempt to repay the debt she caused by losing the necklace she received. Only later to find out, if she had told her friend the truth, Loisel would have known the necklace was only imitation and not the real deal she replaced it with. In such a vain mind, Loisel has caused herself a great deal of regrets and actual poverty, aside from the semi-lush life she had before. The reader can tell that such a personality is better off avoiding. Additionally, one could easily question, “Is seeking all the riches in the world really worth risking everything one already has to cherish?” Loisel may have been a woman of beauty at the time, but Loisel threw all of it away trying to have all the riches she could. Can anybody see how needless these actions are? Having learned modesty, I
Through the story “The Necklace”, Guy De Maupassant presents the character of Madame Mathilde Loisel. One evening, Loisel’s husband brings home and invitation to a ball and to the reader’s surprise, Loisel is angry; questioning, “And what do you suppose I am to wear at such an affair.” Likewise, her husband gives her 400 francs to appease her displeasure and buy a new dress. Not long after Madame Loisel bought the dress pleasing to her, Loisel would rather not go to the ball when realizes she does not have a jewel to wear with the dress in support of her rich disguise. After prying more at her husband about the jewel problem, Monsieur Loisel suggests borrowing them from Madame Forestier. Madame Loisel, pleased by …show more content…
Throughout the story, her husband is constantly doing things for her, yet she is always dissatisfied. When Madame Loisel exclaims to him that she doesn’t have a dress for the ball, he forfeits the 400 francs he had been saving for a gun. To his demise she states, “I’m utterly miserable at not having any jewels, not a single stone to wear… I would almost rather not go to the party.” Furthermore, Loisel’s husband tells her to just borrow jewels from her close friend, and so she did. Later on, on the night of the ball she loses that very necklace and doesn’t want to face her friend after such an expensive loss. Monsieur Loisel in response to his wife’s grief goes about getting loans to buy a replacement. Due to Madame Loisel having to look rich for the ball, her husband suffered a great debt and was shackled into poverty trying to help her feel classy. Clearly, one can see that she had a lack of appreciation toward her husband because not once did she show gratitude while condemning him to such …show more content…
Loisel couldn’t appreciate her husband giving her 400 francs to buy a dress let alone that he was taking her to a ball, for which she had to have the expensive dress. Rather than being satisfied by what she had and wear flowers (which Monsieur Loisel had suggested), Loisel continued her insatiable nature when her dress wasn’t enough to attend the ball, requiring to have jewels as well. Furthermore, Loisel in her big-headedness, spent ten years in attempt to repay the debt she caused by losing the necklace she received. Only later to find out, if she had told her friend the truth, Loisel would have known the necklace was only imitation and not the real deal she replaced it with. In such a vain mind, Loisel has caused herself a great deal of regrets and actual poverty, aside from the semi-lush life she had before. The reader can tell that such a personality is better off avoiding. Additionally, one could easily question, “Is seeking all the riches in the world really worth risking everything one already has to cherish?” Loisel may have been a woman of beauty at the time, but Loisel threw all of it away trying to have all the riches she could. Can anybody see how needless these actions are? Having learned modesty, I