Needs In The Necklace, And The Thrill The Chase

Mme. Forestier , quite overcome , clasped her by the hands. “Oh my , poor Mathilde . But mine was only paste . Why , at most it was worth five hundred francs!”

People who are driven by greed end up focusing on what they do not have instead of being grateful for what they do have. This is relevant in the short story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant because Mathilde Loisel ends up losing everything she owns just because she lets greed drive her decisions and get the best of her. When receiving an invitation to an extravagant ball, she declines because she says she does not have anything nice to wear. In the beginning of the short story she says, “There is nothing more humiliating than looking poor in the middle of a lot of rich women.(Maupassant).” The reader sees how she puts value in possessions and what others think of her. After finding a dress and then borrowing a necklace that she thought

It seems to most that those who have money have it all. They should buy all the unnecessary “junk” that one might find pleasure in owning, take everything for granted and view lower-class individuals as a group of wanna-bes. Think again. S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders, very important propositions are portrayed through the writing techniques which link to another piece of writing “Poverty and Wealth” written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Just because you have everything, doesn’t mean you understand it's worth. Different classes have different experiences, allowing elaboration on the different characters.

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

In the story The Necklace, by Guy de Maupassant, the main character Mathilde makes a very bad choice when asking her friend to borrow a necklace, and then lying to her. This is because of two poor decisions. First, she lost it, and second, it wasn't even a real diamond necklace. Toward the end of the story, we find out that as she gets home she cannot find the necklace. A quote on page four proves this by saying, “I-I-I have not Mne.

     People who make decisions based off want can end up with bad consequences in the end. In the story The Necklace a woman chooses want over need. She thinks she needs to be luxurious and rich but she really doesn't. She thinks she needs nice things to be happy but she actually has all she needs. She borrows a luxurious necklace from her friend and when she loses it she's stuck with a huge debt that will take forever to repay. She spent the

“She so much longed to please, be envied, be fascinating and sought after” (de Maupassant 67). The main character desires to be at the center of attention, she wants to be coveted by others. In his fictional short story titled, “The Necklace,” Guy de Maupassant writes about how the lusting for more may cause people to be blinded and unable to see/value the treasures they already have. The story begins with an introduction of a lady who daydreams about the happiness that materialistic yearnings can bring her, forgetting her situation and social class. After taking her husband’s recommendation to borrow jewelry, specifically a diamond necklace, from her close friend Madame Forestier to wear alongside her dress at the evening reception, the main character later discovers that she had lost the necklace. Following their failure to find the necklace, Madame and Monsieur Loisel devise a plan to borrow money to replace the necklace with another and in doing so, fall into years of debt. Moreover, Maupassant uses direct characterization, imagery and situational irony to further depict why you should be grateful for what you already have before it’s too late.

A theme that can be found in these two short stories are wealth. In The Necklace, wealth is a theme that the author uses when he describes Mathilde’s history, fantasies, and jealousy against wealthy people. The author talks about Mathilde’s history and how she lacked wealth. The narrator, writes “She was one of those pretty and charming girls, born by a blunder of destiny in a family of employees. She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of being known, understood, loved, married by a man rich and distinguished” (Maupassant 1884). This demonstrates that Mathilde is destined to be rich, yet rather is naturally introduced to neediness. The quote implies that Mathilde needs a more than what she has. Mathilde fantasizes about riches. The narrator

Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace” is a short story about a middle-class girl Mathilde, who loses her friend’s costly necklace and spends a decade paying for its replacement. “The Necklace” represents the story of a standard young lady who loves her husband, despite her desires to be an affluent person. However, readers fail to notice that Madame Loisel’s love for Monsieur Loisel vanishes upon their marriage and her materialistic personalities continue to increase. “The Necklace” is influencing other stories because of its elegance and love, but people will never understand the melancholy and negative reality of this narrative. Therefore, in the short story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, the protagonist Mathilde is portrayed as a dissatisfied, begrudging, and calumniating character through her perspective of her average life, her actions toward her friend Madame Forestier, and her husband Monsieur Loisel.

Borrowing your friends things might be a little fun but, it also can teach you responsibility. In "The Necklace" by Guy De Maupassant, Mathilde is a little greedy. She already has a pretty dress the her husband likes but it's not good enough for her to wear to the ball, or that's what she thinks. Instead of wearing the perfectly good dress she has, she asked she husband to buy a new expensive dress, and he does. She now thinks she needs jewelry so she asks her friend to borrow one. Of course she finds a beautiful diamond necklace. When she gets home from a fun night at the ball she realizes that the the diamond necklace is gone and lies to her friend about losing it. Well she has to tell her something but I won't tell you what I will tell you

Have you ever heard of the two short stories called, “ The Necklace” and “ The Bet ” ? If not then read this and i'll tell you some important facts about them both. “The Necklace” is about a lady named Matilda and her husband. Matilda was conceited, and selfish the husband was caring and thoughtful. “The Bet” is about a lawyer and a banker that made a bet with each other. The banker is conceited and careless, as the lawyer is brave.

The stories “The Necklace” written by Guy de Maupassant (1884) and “The Bet”written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1889 ) use dialogue to show what the character thinks and how they act. They use dialogue to show the way a character thinks and acts in a story. In the story “The Necklace” is it use dialogue to show their different behaviors. They also use dialogue in the story “The bet” uses dialogue to show characters how their character traits. Dialogue in “The Necklace” and “The Bet” functions to reveal aspects of character by demonstrating their behaviors and their character traits.

In our everyday life the majority of us have to make decisions. These decisions vary from deciding to wear a pink flannel or a white blazer, to considering if the job offer at the local supermarket or the internship at Mercury is right for you. The short story,” How Far She Went” written by Mary Hood details a grandchild debating whether she should leave her house to find her freedom or stay with her detach grandmother. Similarly, the short story “The Necklace” written by Guy Maupassant, the protagonist named Madame Loisel suffers from an internal struggle to either keep dreaming of a higher social status or remain in her current social economic status. Likewise, Emilia Pardo Bazán short story “Las Medias Rojas” (The Red Stockings), the protagonist faces a dilemma to either stay with her abusive father or search for the American Dream. Indeed, in the trajectory of life an individual may face adversity of any magnitude, but ultimately it is our decisions that shape our lives.

Mathilde was a young women living with an aspiration for more. She lived with her husband who worked to support her and would do anything for her. But she never felt that her life was good enough. Mathilde felt that she was too beautiful and worthy for the life she was born into. For that reason, she was not grateful for the small things that her husband tried to do to make her happy. But when he brings home a ticket for his wife to the ball in town, she is faced with a couple of problems. She believes that she would not look as good as the other women at the dance, because she did not have any beautiful gowns to wear. Some conflicts that occur to Mathilde throughout The Necklace, are not having a nice dress to wear to the ball, not

Mrs. Loisel learned what poor was when she lost the necklace. Losing that necklace meant losing so much more. She lost her beauty and her husband's life savings. She lost her youth and financial security. She also lost her pride, but in doing so she gained substance in her personality. At the beginning of the story she was extremely shallow and she gained a sense of self worth and self respect. She also gained respect for her