Guy de Maupassant is one of the major nineteenth century French writers. He is also known as one of the fathers of the modern day short story. In “The Necklace” written by Guy De Maupassant illustrates how his main character Mathilde Loisel evolves, the structure is formatted and the theme, power of objects, ruins her life. In “The Necklace” the main character was Mrs. Loisel. She was a beautiful and charming woman; who is married to a poor clerk. She always daydreams of fancy dresses and jewels, and imagines others showing jealousy towards her. At the end of this story she loses her beauty and is not recognized by her friend, Mrs. Forrestier because she has been working hard all these years to pay for the necklace she borrowed which she
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Loisel has too much eager. She doesn’t want to confront to her mistake of losing the necklace and decides she will do what she thinks is right. The effect of this takes all of her beauty and time from her. She decides to work so hard to pay off the necklace and finally finds out that it wasn’t worth all of her time and effort. Her eager took the best of her. This builds that structure of the story in which revolves around what she builds for herself. She was never grateful of her husband, her life and what she had, however her will to work hard is …show more content…
Loisel she takes everything for granted, always complaining and never realizing that what she has is more than enough. The reason I said that is in this short story the necklace, Mrs. Loisel thinks that the only way that she can be happy is by being rich; she feels that money can give her everything she wants. Even though her husband tries so hard to make her happy, but her self-esteem takes the better of her and she doesn’t show any happiness towards him. After an invitation to the evening reception (party) at the ministry, she start complaining that she has nothing to wear; and buys a new beautiful dress that cost four hundred France. After all of that she wasn’t really happy she wanted jewelry again she is never satisfied. She borrows her friend 's diamond necklace. If she knew to treasure everything the way its worth, then maybe the diamond necklace wouldn’t be lost. She just flaunts the necklace to every person she sees in the party. If she took proper care of the necklace she wouldn’t have needed to spend 10 years working for the money so she can pay for the diamond necklace. Through this whole story her poor husband is dragged along with her, so he also works harder to pay off the jewelry. If she was thankful enough to wear what she have, she wouldn’t have gone through all that trouble and she would have saved that forty thousand francs to herself and her future. However her selfishness took the
Loisel has too much eager. She doesn’t want to confront to her mistake of losing the necklace and decides she will do what she thinks is right. The effect of this takes all of her beauty and time from her. She decides to work so hard to pay off the necklace and finally finds out that it wasn’t worth all of her time and effort. Her eager took the best of her. This builds that structure of the story in which revolves around what she builds for herself. She was never grateful of her husband, her life and what she had, however her will to work hard is …show more content…
Loisel she takes everything for granted, always complaining and never realizing that what she has is more than enough. The reason I said that is in this short story the necklace, Mrs. Loisel thinks that the only way that she can be happy is by being rich; she feels that money can give her everything she wants. Even though her husband tries so hard to make her happy, but her self-esteem takes the better of her and she doesn’t show any happiness towards him. After an invitation to the evening reception (party) at the ministry, she start complaining that she has nothing to wear; and buys a new beautiful dress that cost four hundred France. After all of that she wasn’t really happy she wanted jewelry again she is never satisfied. She borrows her friend 's diamond necklace. If she knew to treasure everything the way its worth, then maybe the diamond necklace wouldn’t be lost. She just flaunts the necklace to every person she sees in the party. If she took proper care of the necklace she wouldn’t have needed to spend 10 years working for the money so she can pay for the diamond necklace. Through this whole story her poor husband is dragged along with her, so he also works harder to pay off the jewelry. If she was thankful enough to wear what she have, she wouldn’t have gone through all that trouble and she would have saved that forty thousand francs to herself and her future. However her selfishness took the