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Dec 7, 2023 · By Staff WriterLast Updated December 07, 2023. The theme of Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace” is that appearances are deceiving and the desire to be someone else often causes a person to lose the chance of happiness in the present moment. The main character in this story, Mathilde Loisel, wanted so badly to be rich that she ...
In “The Necklace,” Guy de Maupassant demonstrates the importance of knowing how to achieve happiness in a meaningful and lasting way. At the beginning of the story, Mathilde and her husband live a modest life, but with enough money to live comfortably. However, Mathilde is perpetually discontented, unable to be happy without the clothes and ...
The moral of the story "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant can be summed up by the common aphorism "all that glitters is not gold." Mathilde's values are superficial, and she only attaches ...
Important Quotes Explained. Page 1 Page 2 Page 3. Next. 1. She danced madly, ecstatically, drunk with pleasure, with no thought for anything, in the triumph of her beauty, in the pride of her success, in a cloud of happiness made up of this universal homage and admiration, of the desires she had aroused, of the completeness of a victory so dear ...
The Necklace. She was one of those pretty and charming girls who, as if by a mistake of destiny, are born in a family of employees. She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of becoming known, understood, loved, wedded by any rich and distinguished man; and so she let herself be married to a petty clerk in the Bureau of Public Instruction.
Full Plot Summary. Mathilde Loisel is “pretty and charming” but feels she has been born into a family of unfavorable economic status. She was married off to a lowly clerk in the Ministry of Education, who can afford to provide her only with a modest though not uncomfortable lifestyle.
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