One example of this would be when Mathilide said” I-I-I have not Mme. Forester’s diamond necklace.” (pg.). This is a great example due to the fact that it is situational irony and also how she lost the necklace. This was again very ironic because of the fact that she insisted she had to borrow this really expensive necklace to go to the ball, when in the end she ends up losing it. Another example in the story that showed was how the necklace was fake and worth absolutely nothing(pg.179) quote that really stuck out to me was when Madame Forestier said “Oh my poor Mathilde! But mine was a fake. It wasn’t worth more than five hundered francs.” (pg.179). Due to this fact she and her husband went into debt for basically no reasoning at all. So the consequences here was now Madame forester has a real necklace, and once again what does Mathilde have absolutely nothing. So overall the irony here is that they bought this necklace not knowing the first one was actually fake. These two quotes or situations still support Mathilde problems with being discontent with her life as it …show more content…
He used three effective literary elements. He used conflict to support the plot, and situational irony to make the plot twist this gave the story dynamics, lastly he used point of view to tie everything together for the theme otherwise we would have never known the information we do. He needed these elements to make a backbone to the story which was theme. There were a lot of other literary elements used throughout the story, but these three really stood out. Guy de Maupassant used situational irony, conflict and, point of view to represent the theme of