The Necklace: Character, Theme, and Literary Analysis Homework

This homework assignment analyzes Guy de Maupassant's short story, 'The Necklace,' examining key characters like Madame Loisel and Monsieur Loisel, and exploring central themes such as materialism, social class, and the consequences of deception. The assignment delves into the characters' motivations, the story's plot, and the impact of the necklace on their lives. It also considers the story's moral lesson and compares it to other literary works. Furthermore, the assignment evaluates the characters' decisions and the broader societal implications. The analysis includes questions on the characters' desires, their actions, and the story's ending, offering a comprehensive understanding of the narrative and its themes. Finally, it touches upon the themes of classism, dreams, and the potential for women to achieve their dreams.

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1.1
Clerks- Financially weak, worker class people who make ends meet
Dowry- Gifts given from the family of the bride to the bride for a happy married life.
Gallantries- Great stories of bravery and valor that can give respect
Inscrutable- lively and non-removable
Resentfully- With Guilt
Whole- everyone from the ministry
Usurers- a person who lends money at unreasonably high rates of interest.
1.2
Monsieur Louiselle believed that he was finally able to fulfill the glamorous vision of the life of
his wife as a result of the invitation to the ball from the ministry. Sadly, she was still too lost in
her creative world to understand what he did was good from his end and all he wanted was to
make her happy and not sad.
1.3
Mme Loisel was a woman who liked to go to parties, dress up in many beautiful dresses and step
into wealthy social circles. She also shared her husband's wish and was sad and dissatisfied with
her present life, without luxuries and good social happenings. If your husband invites a

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wonderful dinner party and dance, you should expect her reaction to being happy and cheerful.
Rather, she's angry, surprisingly.
1.4
M. Loisel had saved 400 francs to buy a pistol so he could enter hunting fiestas on the Nanterre
Plains with some friends who went up to kill larks.
1.5
After the loss of the necklace, Mathilde's life changed for the worse. Because she wants to take
matters into her own hands, rather than sweeping her pride, telling the truth of the loss, and
admitting to her friend. She achieved full financial ruin as a replacement for the missing
necklace. Their lives were abandoned to replace this gem, both of Madame and Monsieur Loisel.
Monsieur then invested his heritage and surrendered all these things. Mathilde had to work and
take more tasks than ever before. The hard work and sacrifice represented their daily acts and
their faces.
1.6
Mathilde wore a beautiful new gown and diamond necklace but had only cheap, old outer
garments to wrap around her shoulder before going into the cold early morning air. She was
happy in the ball but not life, she wanted to hide that reality and thus wanted to go fast.
1.7
The following steps were taken
-- Loisel walked back from the hall, tracing the events.

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—they gave the police a statement.
-All the cabbies from and to the Ball of the carriages were spoken to.
-A lost necklace was posted in a newspaper and the recovery was rewarded.
1.8
Loiesel learned to live in its possibilities. The illusion of being wealthy, she no longer desired.
Loisel started to enjoy her "natural" life and work ethics.
1.9
Mrs. Forestier can not remember Mathilde when she comes to Madame Forestier walking along
the Champs-Elysées because she is so much older and ill-healthy from the years of hard work.
Madame Forestier sadly tells Mathilde that her necklace was worth just 500 francs.
1.10
Mrs. Ignatius. When the necklace returned, Forestier's reaction was furious. She didn't think it
took so long to get there, she would have had to wear her earlier.
2.1
The high-quality jewelry was not known by MME Loisel. Loisel was too bad to cultivate an eye
for jewelry, but the argument is that she is too superficial to look under the surface of items, too
fixated on luxury. If she had a good eye, she would have known the necklace was a fake.
2.2

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Mathilde is dissatisfied with her home as she begins to hate her life and the lack of riches that
she and her husband have as she looks around and sees filthy walls and old furniture. She needs a
beautiful and decorated house with furniture.
2.3
Mr. Loisel didn't wait for the idea of rich attention, unlike his wife. He just got his tickets for the
ball for his wife.
2.4
The customer asked how much the jeweler asked for an object and the jeweler called the price.
So he not only raising the price by four thousand francs but allowed them to purchase the collar
if the one they had misplaced could be found. So, he lowered the price from 40,000 francs to
36,000, hearing the sad story.
2.5
This question has no reference to the reading given and belongs to Desiree's baby
2.6
Mathilde Loisel has never contacted Madame Forestier after the collar returns. Either she never
knew that her necklace was different or she knew the difference and did not want to tell Mathilde
the truth about her fake necklace. The end of the story, however, reveals that Madame Forestier
was unaware of the actual diamond replacement necklace.
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Loisel was content with his life before the ball, in my opinion. He lived comfortably, married a
lovely lady, had a lovely home and had plenty of money to buy assistance for his son. The only
issue Loisel had seemed happy to hold his wife because she was never happy.
2.8
Madame Loisel helped with the expenses of the new necklace by the dismissal of her assistant,
the transfer to a cheaper house and the work of her family. There was a mistake. The appearance
of Madame Loisel was also influenced by the hard work to pay the costly `jewelry.
3.1
I don't think anybody should belong to a caste or class. There is no difference between men or
women when it comes to belonging to a class hierarchy. Unfortunately, this still exists in society
today. Classism leads to prejudice and inequality.
3.2
"The Necklace" is similar to Steinbeck's book, The Pearl, as a material object transforms his
lives dramatically. The new ending can be as such, Madame Loisel can find the necklace from
long ago behind the cab door. When she discovers it, she loses her mind and insists that she
wears it, but she wears it in an asylum, where she goes mad due to her unfulfilled desires.
3.3
I think is easier for a woman to fulfill her dreams today because back in the era where the story is
based, women wouldn't be allowed to work in business places, but work as slaves for nursing.
Now women can go to work at a business place and break the glass ceiling.

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3.4
They thought the right thing they were trying to do but it was not told. They worked hard to
repair the collar, but Madame Forestier did not truly lose it in the first place. You could have
saved yourself from heart failure and years of labor if you knew your collar was a fake one.
Ironically, after working to remove the collar, it became more comfortable and self-aware.
3.5
I would say that "The Necklace"'s moral lesson is that deceit is always a mistake that results in a
misunderstanding. By making her believe that she's a better social standing than she is really,
Mathilde tries to confuse the people attending the party. She can do it with a borrowed necklace.