“Learn to appreciate what you have, before time makes you appreciate what you had.”(Ziad K. Abdelnour). As people focus and dwell on the things that they could have, they eventually find themselves in a place where their misery turns into self-improvement. In Guy de Maupassant’s The Necklace, it focuses on the main character, Mme.Loisel, and her struggles with accepting reality and jealousy. Throughout the story, readers learn how she copes with these obstructions, and will notice that eventually, the detriment that occured from Mme Loisel’s desire for wealth, caused her to realize what things are truly important in life. People who are too invested in themselves live in their own world and can not see what is occurring around them. For Mme. Loisel, she is simply incapable of seeing the extent of people’s actions to attempt to please her. More specifically, she does not appreciate what her hard-working husband does to make her happy. No matter what he does, it never seems to be enough to satisfy her …show more content…
They are unsuccessful in their search, which results in them taking out a loan to replace it. Upon doing that, she is left with a huge financial burden. She has to take upon the responsibilities that she was never accustomed to. The tasks take a very physical toll on her and have aged her to the point where she is unrecognizable. The extreme exhaustion left her with the realization that a job is certainly not easy. She appreciates the tiring work others endured everyday. She is extremely grateful for the work that her husband has done to be able to give her what she had, now that she no longer had it. She reflects on the night of the ball when her appearance was stunning and was dancing in her own cloud of bliss. Her ongoing idea of being a well-known, rich established woman was out of reach. Once reality set in, she realized that she would never be the person whom she aspired to
Coveting is the wanting of not only what you don’t have, but what you can’t have as well. Let’s face it, ultimately, almost everyone covets at some point in their life, but at the end of the day, our happiness comes from within, not from our material possessions. If you spend all of your time coveting for better things, then you are just digging yourself into a deeper and deeper hole of loneliness and disappointment. Inside the story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, coveting negatively affects Mme. Loisel by not only altering the reality of her situation, but her perception of the situation as well.
In “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant the character Madame Loisel was always longing for expensive possessions, larger
She comes from a good family that works for what they have. She marries a good hard workingman. But, Mathilde is not happy the way she is living and she daydreams about having the glamorous life. From having fancy tapestries, grand banquets to tall footmen. One day her husband, M. Loisel, comes homes extremely excited to show his wife an invitation that he has received to go to a fancy ball. She is not happy because she has nothing to wear and she doesn’t want to show up looking ugly with house full of rich people. She got the dress she wanted but then was not happy because she needed jewelry to go with this dress. Mathilde went to her rich friend to borrow jewels from. Of course she went with the most extravagant piece of jewelry, a diamond necklace. Showing up to the fancy ball with everybody adoring what a beauty she is, Mathilde was finally satisfied. When she got home after the fancy ball, she noticed that the necklace she borrowed was missing. Looking franticly for weeks, Mathilde then decided she had to replace the necklace. Replacing the necklace took everything they had and more. Mr. and Mrs. Loisel then became extremely poor with no money to there name. They then had to sell everything had and both now had to work. This went on for about ten years. Mathilde had no beauty to her anymore, she had to work, and do the house keeping. The
“What! You can’t mean it! That’s impossible!” (Maupassant 173)This quotation from the character, Loisel’s husband, shows the utter panic with a look into the inciting action. “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant is a short story which will teach the true meaning of honesty, is a brilliant read with an elaborate setting. It also carries out an intense truthful theme with extremely interesting characters.
The first element that Guy de Maupassant employs to develop his theme of pride is his masterful use of characterization in “The Necklace”. Pierce states that “Maupassant’s genius lies in his characterization of the Loisels and the depiction of the hardships that they encounter” (Pierce 1). From the beginning of the story, Madame Loisel is portrayed as a deeply unhappy woman, who feels that she has been cheated by life by not being apart of the upper class: “She was as unhappy as though she has really fallen from her proper station” (Maupassant 1). In an attempt to soften the blow of her low birth, Madame Loisel engages in daydreaming, conjuring up visions of a better life.
If you have something already should be proud of what you have and not think of all the things you think you deserve because you can't get what you don't have without giving effort and the final result will be worse. Guy de Maupassant's parents got divorced when he was 11 and his mother was raising him alone. He always looked differently at the rich, so he decided to write a short story on how people should treat everything they have with care and not ask for more than you can afford because the final result may be worse. In "The Necklace" he develops his theme of how objects can change people through the literary terms situational irony and foreshadowing.
Values are spread all around the world, and many people’s values differ. These can lead to people being judged, or indirectly characterized by other people. In “The Necklace” Mme. Loisel is a beautiful woman with a decent life, and a husband that loves her, and only wants to make her happy. She is not rich but she makes it along, she insists of a better, wealthier life. When her husband gets her invited to a ball, she feels the need for a brand new fancy dress and tons of jewelry. When the couple realizes they cannot afford jewelry as well, they search out to borrow her friend, Mme. Forestiers’ necklace. She comes to notice she no longer has the necklace on when she leaves the ball. This later troubles her, as she has to work for a long time to collect enough money to buy a new necklace. This story describes the relationship between a couple, who have different dreams, and how desires can revamp your life. Guy de Maupassant, the author of “The Necklace” uses literary devices to prove people come before materialistic items.
In Mauassant's essay, The Necklace Matilda Loisel borrowed a necklace from a rich friend, Mrs Forestier, so that she would not present a "shabby air in the midst of rich women." She loses the necklace but refuses to admit that. Her and her husband, not realizing that the necklace was fake, buy a similar necklace to return to Mrs Forestier. They end up having to work for ten years to pay off this debt. All of Mme. Loisel's actions leading up to the loss of the necklace were directed by an attempt to maintain her false sense of pride, for which she gave up her dignity over the next ten years.
Mathilde Loisel is a woman who wants more than what she has, and is often dishonest. The short story The Necklace, by Guy de Maupassant, is about honesty and reveals that if you are honest, things turn out to be a lot better for you. Mathilde Loisel is unhappy with her current life, and her husband gets them an invitation to a party. She buys dresses with his money, and borrows a necklace from her friend, Madame Forestier. However, she loses the necklace and is dishonest, returning a substitute necklace to her friend and working for ten years with her husband to pay off the loans used to pay for it. She later learns if she had been honest, she would have not gone through that trouble. Madame Forestier, her friend of whom she had borrowed the necklace from, had owned an imitation of a necklace, not a real necklace.
Around the world, values are expressed differently. Some people think that life is about the little things that make them happy. Others feel the opposite way and that expenses are the way to live. In Guy de Maupassant’s short story, “The Necklace”, he develops a character, Madame Loisel, who illustrates her different style of assessments. Madame Loisel, a beautiful woman, lives in a wonderful home with all the necessary supplies needed to live. However, she is very unhappy with her life. She feels she deserves a much more expensive and materialistic life than what she has. After pitying herself for not being the richest of her friends, she goes out and borrows a beautiful necklace from an ally. But as she misplaces the closest thing she has to the life she dreams of and not telling her friend about the mishap, she could have set herself aside from ten years of work. Through many literary devices, de Maupassant sends a message to value less substance articles so life can be spent wisely.
It is said that “everything that shines isn't gold.” A difficult situation can result a vast illusion that is not what one thought it would be, which leads to disappointment and despair. Just like Guy De Maupassant stories, “The Necklace” and “The Jewel.” In the first story, the protagonist, Mathilde Loisel’s need for materialistic fulfillment causes her hard labor which ends her natural beauty. In the second story, the husband Monsieur Latin ends up living a dreadful life due to the passing of his wife and her admiration for jewels. “The Necklace” and “The Jewel” both share many similarities such as the unconditional love each husband haves toward their wife, the necessity each wife haves towards materialistic greed, the beautiful allurement
It took ten years for Mathilde and her husband to pay off the debt of buying a new necklace. Those ten years were not spent with the luxuries she experienced so many years ago at the party, nor were they filled with the simple things she once owned and despised. She came to know “the horrible existence of the needy. She bore her part, however, with sudden heroism.” When passing her rich friend again in the street, she was barely recognizable. Who she was the day she ran into her friend was not who she was the night she wore that necklace.
In the short story “The Necklace”, the main character, Loisel, is a woman who dreams of greater things in her life. She is married to a poor clerk who tries his best to make her happy no matter what. In an attempt to try to bring happiness to his wife, he manages to get two invitations to a very classy ball, but even in light of this Loisel is still unhappy. Even when she gets a new dress she is still unhappy. This lasts until her husband suggests she borrows some jewelry from a friend, and upon doing so she is finally happy. Once the ball is over, and they reach home, Loisel has the horrible realization that she has lost the necklace, and after ten years of hard labor and suffering, they pay off debts incurred to get a replacement. The central idea of this story is how something small can have a life changing effect on our and others life’s. This idea is presented through internal and external conflicts, third person omniscient point of view, and the round-dynamic character of Loisel. The third person limited omniscient point-of-view is prevalent throughout this short story in the way that the author lets the reader only see into the main character’s thoughts. Loisel is revealed to the reader as being unhappy with her life and wishing for fancier things. “She suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born for all the delicacies and all the luxuries.” (de Maupassant 887) When her husband tries to fancy things up, “she thought of dainty dinners, of shining silverware, of tapestry which peopled the walls…” (de Maupassant 887) As the story goes on her point of view changes, as she “now knew the horrible existence of the needy. She took her part, moreover all of a sudden, with heroism.” (de Maupassant 891) Having the accountability to know that the “dreadful debt must be paid.” (de Maupassant 891 ) This point-of-view is used to help the reader gain more insight to how Loisel’s whole mindset is changed throughout her struggle to pay off their debts. Maupassant only reveals the thoughts and feelings of these this main character leaving all the others as flat characters. Loisel is a round-dynamic character in that Maupassant shows how she thought she was born in the wrong “station”. “She dressed plainly because she could not dress well, but she was as unhappy as though she had really fallen from her proper station.
Guy de Maupassant is a realist whose claim to fame is the style in which he conveys political and socioeconomic themes in his literary publications. He achieves his writing style by putting small unfortunate life events under a spotlight. His literary performance is described in his biography from Cambridge, the writer says “He exposes with piercing clarity the small tragedies and pathetic incidents of everyday life, taking a clear-sighted though pessimistic view of humanity” (Halsey, par. 1). Guy de Maupassant’s story The Necklace is a great representation of the style he uses. In The Necklace the main character Mathilde Loisel a beautiful but impoverished woman married to a clerk is in conflict with her lack of wealth and desire to acquire
The moral of Guy de Maupassant’s story “The Necklace” seems to be suggested by the line, “What would have happened if Mathilde had not lost the necklace?” If Mathilde had not lost the necklace, or in fact, even asked to borrow the necklace, she and Mr. Loisel would not of been in debt ten long years. Because Mathilde had to borrow the necklace to make herself and others like her better her and Mr. Loisel’s economic situation had become worse than it already was. I think that the moral of the story is that people need to be happy with what they have and not be so greedy.