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  2. Need help on characters in Guy de Maupassant's The Necklace? Check out our detailed character descriptions. From the creators of SparkNotes.

    • The Necklace

      Analysis. Mathilde Loisel is a pretty and charming woman who...

  3. A list of all the characters in The Necklace. The Necklace characters include: Mathilde Loisel, Monsieur Loisel.

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    • Monsieur Loisel
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    Mathilde Loisel is a dissatisfied woman, and this drives her conflict withherself and with others. She imagines living a more fantastical life than theone she was born into. She feels that there is a great discrepancy between thelife she shouldbe living based on her charm and beauty(which, based on textual evidence, is not imagined) and the life sh...

    From every indication, Monsieur Loisel is a dedicated husband. Although heis referred to in the diminutive as a “little clerk,” and despite the fact thathis wife is never seen engaging with him warmly, Monsieur Loisel makes ongoingefforts to please Mathilde and attempts to give her the life he knows shedesires. It is difficult for him to obtain the...

    Madame Forestier represents all Mathilde longs for. She is wealthy, andMathilde pulls away from their friendship because spending time with MadameForestier makes Mathilde “suffer” upon returning to her own home, which isn’tnearly as elegant. It is Madame Forestier who offers Mathilde her jewelry towear and who endures her friend’s highly selective ...

  4. In ‘The Necklace’, Guy de Maupassant explores the relationship between appearance and reality. The necklace, of course, is the most explicit example of this: it looks like a genuine diamond necklace but is actually an imitation or fake. And this final twist in the tale leads us to think more carefully about the other details of the story.

  5. Character Analysis. in. The Necklace. Mathilde Loisel: Mathilde is a dissatisfied housewife who dreams of a life of glamour and wealth. She feels trapped in a middle-class life and longs to for the life of riches that she believes she deserves. Monsieur Loisel: In contrast to Mathilde’s selfishness and greed, her husband demonstrates ...

  6. Detailed analysis of Characters in Guy de Maupassant's The Necklace. Learn all about how the characters in The Necklace such as Madame Loisel and Monsieur Loisel contribute to the story and how they fit into the plot.

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