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A list of all the characters in The Necklace. The Necklace characters include: Mathilde Loisel, Monsieur Loisel.
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The Loisels spend a week scraping up money from all kinds of...
- Monsieur Loisel
Monsieur Loisel’s eagerness and willingness to please...
- Mathilde Loisel
Just as Mathilde was oblivious to the small pleasures that...
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Need help on characters in Guy de Maupassant's The Necklace? Check out our detailed character descriptions. From the creators of SparkNotes.
- Mathilde Loisel
- Monsieur Loisel
- Madame Forestier
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 ...
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"The Necklace" (French: La Parure) is a short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant. It is known for its twist ending (ironic ending), which was a hallmark of de Maupassant's style. The story was first published on 17 February 1884 in the French newspaper Le Gaulois .
- France
- 1884
- La Parure
- Short story
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