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
The works of Guy de Maupassant, “The Necklace” explores the theme of greed and envy that result to self-destruction. A major character in the story is Matilda Loisel, who an envious wife is longing for a better life. Despite her beauty, she always felt dissatisfied with a feeling of wrong life for, not meeting a rich and powerful suitor to court her. Having married a clerk, her possession lead to discomfort in life as she dreamt of more riches around her, but the daily encounter with middle-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