The Necklace
1. After paying off her debt, Mathilde wonders what her life would have been like if she had not lost the necklace. The narrator does not suggest an answer to this question. What do you think would have happened to her?
Mathilde was not a very happy person and she had just gotten to experience the type of life and attention that she had wanted. She had viewed her husband in a bad way and did not seem to believe that the two of them made a good marriage. Instead, she believed that she belonged in the fancy dresses and expensive jewels. She compared herself to a higher standard than even those that she looked up to could afford. I believe that once she had a taste for that type of party and lifestyle she would have eventually left her husband for someone of higher status or became very depressed and ill due to her shame of not being able to live up to that status with a husband who she did not see as being able to provide that for her.
2. Do you think Madame Forestier will sell the diamond necklace and return the Loisels' money?
Madame Forestier never seemed to judge her friend and appeared truly happy to get to spend time with her. She noticed how the suffering had changed her friend and she seemed to be truly saddened by this. She never put as much interests in the jewels or the cost of …show more content…
Before the necklace was lost, the friendship between Mathilde and Madame Forestier was difficult because of the image of social classes and money differences. In the end, these differences were no longer as important or noticeable. The two of them could begin a new friendship as they seemed to be reintroducing themselves in the meeting. They had both went through changes in their lives but they were both still strangely familiar to each other. This means that they will be able to start a new relationship based on an old connection. Something new from a known bond can best be represented by a
1. After paying off her debt, Mathilde wonders what her life would have been like if she had not lost the necklace. The narrator does not suggest an answer to this question. What do you think would have happened to her?
Mathilde was not a very happy person and she had just gotten to experience the type of life and attention that she had wanted. She had viewed her husband in a bad way and did not seem to believe that the two of them made a good marriage. Instead, she believed that she belonged in the fancy dresses and expensive jewels. She compared herself to a higher standard than even those that she looked up to could afford. I believe that once she had a taste for that type of party and lifestyle she would have eventually left her husband for someone of higher status or became very depressed and ill due to her shame of not being able to live up to that status with a husband who she did not see as being able to provide that for her.
2. Do you think Madame Forestier will sell the diamond necklace and return the Loisels' money?
Madame Forestier never seemed to judge her friend and appeared truly happy to get to spend time with her. She noticed how the suffering had changed her friend and she seemed to be truly saddened by this. She never put as much interests in the jewels or the cost of …show more content…
Before the necklace was lost, the friendship between Mathilde and Madame Forestier was difficult because of the image of social classes and money differences. In the end, these differences were no longer as important or noticeable. The two of them could begin a new friendship as they seemed to be reintroducing themselves in the meeting. They had both went through changes in their lives but they were both still strangely familiar to each other. This means that they will be able to start a new relationship based on an old connection. Something new from a known bond can best be represented by a