Guy de Maupassant

Mathilde, the main character from The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant, is a character I can relate to in some aspects, but not others. For example, while Mathilde is shown to be a greedy person, I am content with what I have. When Mathilde was looking through Madame Forestier’s jewelry, she picked the most luxurious one despite all the other options, symbolizing greed. Though Mathilde wants expensive items, I am fine with simple things and do not want any more than I have. Additionally, Mathilde…

by Guy de Maupassant and "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry, the plot is very distinct and different. The characters in "The Necklace" are well off, while the characters in "The Gift of the Magi" are very impoverished. Though different in plot and characters, the theme and lesson learned in the end is very similar, showing the characters the difference between "true" and "false" values and how more important love is when compared to materialistic views. In "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant,…

Misplaced priorities combined with self-absorption created the character of Mathilde Loisel in the story, by Guy de Maupassant “The Necklace.” Mathilde has just about everything a woman could want: remarkable beauty, a loving husband, and a comfortable lifestyle. Material riches are the only category in which she falls short. This one factor sets up the conflict presented in the story. Throughout the turmoil that she must endeavor, due to her egotistical ways, one would think she would have a…

people have worried about what others thought of them. During the time when this story was written wealth and your social class were of the up most importance. People were known in this high class society by their beauty, income, or 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…

Ever since Adam and Eve ate the bearing fruit of Good and Evil from the Tree of 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.…

Mathilde lost her money, she had to work very hard in the house: “She came to know the heavy work of the house, the hateful duties of the kitchen. She washed the plates, wearing out her pink nails on the coarse pottery and the bottoms of pans” (Maupassant 5). She got used to doing very hard and laboring tasks even though she did not really want to and it was not her passion. She did it to pay off the debt and pay the bills. She gave up on her American Dream of not having to worry about…

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin The main character of this story is Louise Mallard who has a heart condition. Louise learns that her husband Brently has been killed in a tragic accident and rushes to her room to grieve his loss. As Louise stares out her window and considers her future, she is struck by the realization that she has become free from the oppression her husband provided. Louise comes to accept that she is young and is strangely overcome with a sense of newly found independence.…

“Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death” Mike Myers. In the narratives entitled The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant and The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, both writers create a depiction where people who decide to create this lifelong promise of matrimony somehow die internally. In The Necklace, Madame Loisel is married to clerk and is dying socially because she cannot have what the other women have. She becomes so hateful towards her husband that she allows him to sacrifice all…

Living in The Shadows Since the beginning of time women have been presumed to hold certain titles such as “a good housewife” and “supermom”. Expected to be exemplary mothers and wives while managing a home, bringing up children, pleasing and answering to the requests of their husbands, sometimes even having a full- time job. It’s no wonder how one can lose their self to all the demands and wants of the people in their lives. The events in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of An Hour” and…

As an intro in The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant, Mme. Loisel is described as an elegant and beautiful girl who may have been “mistaken by destiny” as she is born in a family of clerks. She is quite self-conscious about the poverty that she is dealing with and because of that she got married, also, to a clerk without any dowries. Feeling like she had fallen from her “proper station”. As the reader, we can assume that Mme. Loisel is an arrogant character who is full of herself and believes that…