EA 1.1 In the short story The Necklace, by Guy de Maupassant uses the literary device irony, to develop the theme which is to be honest with your friends, not to lie to them. The theme developed by irony is when Madame Loisel tried to replace the “fake necklace” with a “real diamond necklace” that she had lost during the party for “10 years of her life”(Maupassant 7,8). The fact that Madame Loisel went the extra and useless mile to try and replace the necklace, instead of just confessing to her friend she wasted years of her life to repay something she didn’t need to. Trying to cover up her tracks made her poor and miserable when she had a perfectly normal and average life, her need for more expensive things led her to the life of poverty.
