Paying a greater debt than necessary is utterly ridiculous. In the story The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant, the protagonist and in a sense the antagonist as well, Mathilde Loisel, loses a borrowed necklace that she believes costs 40,000 francs which in today’s dollar amount is approximately $151,000! She foolishly does not think about her situation, and immediately starts working to pay for an assumed synonymous necklace (the necklace was in fact worth only 500 francs). Her prideful attitude forces her to not explain to her friend (that she borrowed the necklace from) that she indeed lost the necklace and wants to take the responsibility of paying for a similar necklace. At the final moments of the story, Mathilde learns that the necklace only
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These are important because the author tells the readers about how Mathilde is a young beautiful woman who is married to a clerk at the Ministry of Public Instructions. Also, the reader can see into the minds of the major characters including Mathilde and her husband to learn that her husband tries so hard to please her even if it means not giving himself the pleasure of buying and shooting a gun and she’s not as easily pleased as one might …show more content…
She may have only had to work for two months or so to recompense her friend. The Necklace has significant literary merit from the theme, point-of-view, characterization, setting, and the surprise ending. Mathilde will probably get most of the money she paid for the necklace back because at the end of the story Mme. Forestier “smiled with a joy”. This can be interpreted to mean that she was happy for Mathilde because she can have a little security even through the trials she had previously faced. One may think that Mme. Forestier will sell the necklace, buy one like her old one, and give the extra frances to Mathilde. Although Mathilde enslaved herself for ten years, she learned the invaluable lesson to not let pride conquer the ability to think and ask before
These are important because the author tells the readers about how Mathilde is a young beautiful woman who is married to a clerk at the Ministry of Public Instructions. Also, the reader can see into the minds of the major characters including Mathilde and her husband to learn that her husband tries so hard to please her even if it means not giving himself the pleasure of buying and shooting a gun and she’s not as easily pleased as one might …show more content…
She may have only had to work for two months or so to recompense her friend. The Necklace has significant literary merit from the theme, point-of-view, characterization, setting, and the surprise ending. Mathilde will probably get most of the money she paid for the necklace back because at the end of the story Mme. Forestier “smiled with a joy”. This can be interpreted to mean that she was happy for Mathilde because she can have a little security even through the trials she had previously faced. One may think that Mme. Forestier will sell the necklace, buy one like her old one, and give the extra frances to Mathilde. Although Mathilde enslaved herself for ten years, she learned the invaluable lesson to not let pride conquer the ability to think and ask before