Guy de Maupassant

The short stories “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant and “The Gift if the Magi” by O. Henry imply many character traits. Especially comparing and contrasting the characters of Madame Loisel and Della. In “The Necklace” Madame Loisel losses a necklace that she borrowed and she works to pay for the cost. In “The Gift of the Magi”, Della loses her exquisite hair in return for a gift for her husband. While Madame Loisel and Della may seem different, they are more alike then one may think.…

In Guy De Maupassant’s “The Necklace”, Mathilde endures some difficult circumstances because of a few personal qualities that caused her life to change drastically. Mathilde has always wanted money but has never been lucky enough to acquire such wealth. This results in her wanting everything to herself. She ends up learning the hard way on why she should be thankful for what her husband provides her and not constantly want more and more stuff to seem higher in society. Mathilde is a very…

In “The Necklace,” by Guy de Maupassant, Madame Loisel is a poor women who desperately wants to be wealthy and have all the privileges that wealthy people have. Madame Loisel felt like she was born into the wrong caste, and that she should be living the extravagant life style of a privileged women instead of being married to a clerk that works in the Department of Education. Ariel is a mermaid that desperately wants to have the life of a human and experience the way humans live. In the song…

The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant The main character in The Necklace, Mathilde Loisel, is perceived to be narcissistic. Though everything is tidy and serviceable in the Loisels modest apartment, Mathilde is unhappy with the “worn” walls, “shabby” furniture, and “ugly” curtains, despite the fact that she has a cleaning lady and little to do all day besides dream of a better life. This shows how Mathilde is ungrateful for what she has, and feels poorly for herself for not having better. It also…

Mathilde Loisel from “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant is a character that starts the story off as a selfish person who believes she deserves a better life. After an unfortunate event Mathilde is forced to make drastic changes to her lifestyle. After this event, Mathilde becomes a very different and more realistic character. A dynamic character is described as a person that makes changes to their life, they recognize the change, and that thus causes them to have an attitude adjustment.…

said “but mine was only paste”. Guy De Maupassant Biography and short story connections In the story The Necklace Madame Loisel went to a jeweler hunting for a similar necklace. (3) “He takes her necklace to a jeweler who tells her that it is very valuable”. (178-180). It’s a connection because in the short story Madame Loisel went to a jeweler hunting for a necklace , and in the biography Guy De Maupassant went to a jeweler to show him a valuable…

Throughout many pieces of literature, one may evaluate several themes from a story. These themes may range from love, to heroism, to something completely different. In the stories “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant and “The Gift of the Magi” by O.Henry, several different themes are able to be named. However, both stories share one common theme, that being sacrifice. Not only did characters in both stories sacrifice their own happiness because they wanted other people to be happy, but they also…

The character Mme Loisel in Guy de Maupassant’s The Necklace can be hard to relate to. She can be vain, selfish and greedy although readers do feel bad for her sometimes. Mme Loisel was born into a family without money or a proper home. The author describes how she suffers from her lifestyle of being middle- class. She was described as being ‘unhappy all the time’ due to not having the luxury and fine dresses she dreamed of. She is also simply not content with what she has. All Mathilde wants…

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…

Synthesis Essay Isn’t it amazing how similar people can be even when faced with different situations? “The Necklace,” by Guy De Maupassant, a story about how a selfish woman lead her and her to the life of poverty all because she wanted to look nice with a necklace. Meanwhile, Della Young, a character in the “The Gif of the Magi,” by O’Henry, in love with her husband decides to sell her hair to get her husband a fob chain for his watch as a Christmas present, which ends up being useless as he…