Guy de Maupassant’s short story, “The Necklace,” puts an ironic twist on the not-so-classic riches to rags adventure. The story begins by introducing the reader to the main character, Mathilde Loise. Mathilde desires a life of delicacy and luxury, but lives a rather normal lifestyle. When Mathilde’s husband scores an invitation to an upper-class dinner event, Mathilde becomes concerned about what she will wear in order to blend in with the rest of the crowd. She then frantically decides to ask one
Tilak Misner Vuong Period 5 10/8/14 The Harm of Greed In his short story “The Necklace,” Guy de Maupassant shows that a person’s selfishness and longing for materialistic wealth causes them to ignore and not appreciate the positive moments in their lives. Madame Loisel is a woman with beautiful looks, a kind husband, but a low economic status. She longs to lead a rich and luxurious lifestyle, so much to the point that things such as old and worn-out furniture, “which another woman of her class
century France, the status of a typical French woman was dictated by her husband; her only worth came from beauty, grace, and charm. Guy de Maupassant writes a short story about a woman convinced, as if by a tragic accident, that she has the misfortune of being born into a middle class life. Like the cut-glass gems in the necklace for which the tale "The Necklace" is named after, Madame Loisel’s life is a fraud. She constantly grieves in shame of her status and is only satiated when dreaming of