The Necklace Essay

The story "The Necklace" was talking about how a women named Mathilde that was so selfish she wanted more then what she had. The story was she was a middle class and that she wasn't rich like her friends. She had kept crying to her husband about how she don't have jewelry and pretty dresses to wear. One day she had got invited to a party and she didn't have a pretty dress to wear she went to her husband and told him about the party and how she don't go a dress, so he gave her 400 acres for a new pretty dress. She had got the dress then she noticed that she don't have jewelry so she went back to him and started crying "oh honey I don"t have jewelry to the party", and he told her "why don't you ask your friend Mme, Forestier", she was like oh why not . The next day she went to Mme,Forestier and picked out a necklace she liked and toke it. During the party Mathilde got drunk and when she got home she noticed that the necklace was gone so she had tracked her foot steps and she couldn't find it so she went and brought another one that cost so much money she lost everything she had then after 10 years she payed it off then told her friend and her friend told her it was fake.…

Someone who has agency has control over their own lives and they make their own decisions. In the story The Necklace, Mme Loisel wanted to wealthy like the people of the higher class. Because of the social norms of society, she follows those norms to stand out in society. Maupassant uses characterization to show how society is influenced by the social norms of society, causing them to lose the agency and to be blinded by wealth. In the story The Necklace by Maupassant, the author uses…

Knowledge, humans have long desired to possess exponentially more than what they require. “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” by Leo Tolstoy and “The Necklace,” by Guy de Maupassant, the characters in view are discontented by their current lifestyle. They ruin every spark of a fulfilling life by adding materialistic notions to every aspect, by discrediting their close ones and feeling worse off than they actually are. Both the authors have the same theme by strongly delivering that greed ultimately…

Monsieur Loisel in this short story. B- “The Necklace” starts out with a poor couple in France, Madame and Monsieur Loisel. Monsieur Loisel is thankful and satisfied with his current lifestyle. On the other hand, Madame Loisel believes she was meant for a more lavish lifestyle and feels bad for herself and everything she does not have. The husband gets the couple invited to a ball and Madame Loisel borrows a necklace from an old…

Many of us hear from a young age that beauty is generally a superficial aspect, one that is also seen through one’s personality, or even actions. “The Necklace” is a short story by Marjorie Laurie in which a young lady, Mathilde, loses a necklace she borrowed from a friend and her husband, Loisel, helps her retrieve it. The theme taken from this story is that true beauty goes past the skin. Marjorie Laurie uses literary elements, such as tone and mood, symbolism and irony, and characterization,…

In the story, The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant’s is about a middle class woman named Mathilde Louise that has altered her deportment; because of an accident in relation to her dream of living a luxurious life. She is discontent due to her current middle-class lifestyle; she thinks her beauty should earn her a higher place in society. She dresses as elegantly as possible. She thinks that having a dress is not good enough; then she asks her old school friend if she can borrow a necklace, which…

designer clothes gives you a status of being "rich" or "glamorous" but they look the same as everybody else's clothes, except the price is jacked up. Having the newest iPhone, car, laptop, e.c.t may make people think you have a fancy lifestyle, but they don't even notice. In "The Necklace" Guy de Maupassant uses setting, irony and character to express this theme. In 19th century Paris, France, everybody wanted to look glamorous and sophisticated, just like Madame Loisel did. This period was…

grace. When Guy de Maupassant (1884) wrote the story “The Necklace” it was right during this time period. This story portrayed a young beautiful woman with big dreams. The problem with her big dreams was she was a simple plain woman with no sense of style. Her husband had an everyday clerk’s job that he enjoyed. The woman in the story on the other hand was not happy with what they had she wanted more out of life. For just one night she had a chance to become someone she had always dreamed of by…

perfect for the short story “The Necklace”. Had Mathilde Loisel a beautiful woman who dreams of a richer life seen this quote the story would have ended differently. The second she refuses to tell Jeanne a rich woman and friend of Mathilde what actually happened her life would not have came apart so easily. We see going through the story that Mathilde lying keeps leading her to the wrong path. Mathilde lying ruined her life and caused great pain to her and her husband Monsieur who is a hard…

In the short story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, Mathilde Loisel, a lovely woman told her husband that she needed jewellery for the ball. Her husband had a marvellous idea, he said to go ask Madame Forestier, her friend, to lend her jewellery because she was rich. Guy de Maupassant uses plot, setting and character to show the reader the theme that you should appreciate what you have. The first way Guy de Maupassant shows the theme is through saying that Mathilde Loisel is sad and poor,…