221) Even though the invitation to an evening reception is the invitation she has always hoped for, she feels miserable for she has neither dress nor jewelry worthy of going to such an occasion. To make her happy, her husband (Monsieur Loisel) gives her the money that he saves to her so that she could buy a ball gown. She borrows a diamond necklace from her rich friend, Mme. Forestier. After the ball, she couldn’t find the necklace and because of her dignity, she couldn’t bring herself to tell her friend.
Wauchope Welch English 1102 20 March 2012 The main character of The Necklace, Mathilde Loisel, is a woman who feels that she is entitled to the many wonderful things that life has to offer. Although she is beautiful and charming, she feels that she was born into a lowly ranked family and was married off to a lowly clerk. She is a woman who didn’t have a hard lifestyle, but still wants more. She wanted excitement, wonderful meals, and extravagant clothing. She wanted to live a more lavish lifestyle, but later she will find that the life she has is much better than the life that she will obtain later in life.
The Necklace “The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant tells the story of a woman, Madame Mathilde, who grew up and married into a poor class system. The story tells the readers she’s unhappy with her life and believes she deserves all the luxuries the rich women have with the fur coats, many jewels, and just wealth in general. After her husband works hard to get invitations to a fancy party, the end result of the night leads to the downfall of Madame Mathilde. Guy De Maupassant uses the theme of appearance vs. reality, the symbol of the necklace, and the character’s actions in the story to show how people can be mislead from the truth by illusions. Guy De Maupassant proved in many of his stories that he thought, “Men were scum, women saints, and if a woman cheated on her man it was only because he was weak and worthless and unable to give her the love and support a woman needs” (Bernardo.)
It represents her social class. However, since she becomes greedy, it leads to her doom. She borrows the necklace from Madame Forestier for a party, but when she gets home she misplaces the necklace and is forced to borrow a great amount of cash to buy a replacement. The necklace in this story can be deceiving. Throughout the story, all the characters think that necklace is attested, however Madame Forestier reveals at the end of the story that it is actually an imitation.
She is rich enough to be comfortable among the East Eggers but enough of a social hustler to appear at Gatsby's parties. Jordan serves still another purpose, she is actually Nick's girlfriend during the summer of 1922. The Nick-Jordan romance serves as a good sub-plot to the Gatsby-Daisy relationship, and allows the reader to compare and contrast the romantic-dream like love of Gatsby for Daisy to a very practical but weak
Myriah Wiseman Mrs. Whitney Modern American Lit/Analytical Questions “Winter Dreams” April 8, 2010 Judy Jones at the age eleven was spoiled, snotty, wealthy and very mean. I feel her treatment to the nurse was very unnecessary. She has some anger management and almost hit the man. I think Dexter quit his job because he wanted to move on in his life, he was sick of the life he was living and wanted to move on. He wanted to start fresh and it was almost believed that he was “to old” for his job.
The similarities and differences from both stories are that both women are in unhappy marriages, the theme of the stories, the irony, the symbolism, they were written using the third-person point of view, both had loving husbands, and the end of both stories are sad and tragic. The short story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant is the story of a young woman named Mathilde Loisel and her husband-the little clerk of the Ministry of Public Instruction. Mathilde lived a poor life, which made her to suffer. She had the dream to be rich, to have beautiful clothes and jewels. Throughout the whole story she would complain of being poor and her embarrassment.
When Mathilde gets invited to the fancy party, she begins to be frightened with what she will wear because she does not have many clothes in her closet and the few clothes that Mathilde does have in her closet are simply plain clothing wear that she would be ashamed to be seen worn in public. Unknowing of what goes through a womans mind, her husband suggests “The dress you wear to the theater. That looks quite nice”(Maupassant 1). Upset and in agony Mathilde continues to daydream about having the whole world in her hands, so she would be able to dress as she wishes. Knowing that she does not have the proper clothing and jewelry she starts to cry and get all upset, because she believes that since she does not have the “fancy” apparel, Mathildes husband proposes “All right.
She reflects on her marriage and we find that, although it was a good one, her husband never knew how unhappy his wife was. She loved him, but dreaded the seemingly endless days with him. The story ends with her husband showing up back at home and Louise supposedly succumbing to her weak heart. “’Bliss” follows the story of Bertha Young giving a dinner party with her husband Harry. It is attended by various guests, including a Miss.
Myrtle started acting like a rich person just because of a material object. This is materialistic because Myrtle acts rich just because of a dress. Myrtle shows her materialistic qualities when she says “It’s just a crazy old thing; I just slip it on sometimes when I don’t care what I look like.”(pg31) This leads to Myrtle thinking of George in a materialistic manner in the next example. Because George didn’t have enough money to buy a fancy new suit for his wedding day he borrowed one from someone. When Myrtle finds out about this she gets mad at George.