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    Guy de Maupassant's short story "The Necklace" follows Mathilde Loisel, a woman who borrows an expensive diamond necklace from her wealthy friend to attend a ball. However, Mathilde loses the necklace and she and her husband spend the next 10 years replacing it and paying off their debts. They work themselves to the bone but their lives do not improve. In the end, it is revealed the original necklace was a fake, revealing the futility and irony of Mathilde's actions driven by vanity and desire for status.

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    Guy de Maupassant's short story "The Necklace" follows Mathilde Loisel, a woman who borrows an expensive diamond necklace from her wealthy friend to attend a ball. However, Mathilde loses the necklace and she and her husband spend the next 10 years replacing it and paying off their debts. They work themselves to the bone but their lives do not improve. In the end, it is revealed the original necklace was a fake, revealing the futility and irony of Mathilde's actions driven by vanity and desire for status.

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    The Necklace: Guy de Maupassant

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    Isabel Katrina Cajuguiran
    Guy de Maupassant's short story "The Necklace" follows Mathilde Loisel, a woman who borrows an expensive diamond necklace from her wealthy friend to attend a ball. However, Mathilde loses the necklace and she and her husband spend the next 10 years replacing it and paying off their debts. They work themselves to the bone but their lives do not improve. In the end, it is revealed the original necklace was a fake, revealing the futility and irony of Mathilde's actions driven by vanity and desire for status.

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    The Necklace

    Guy de Maupassant
    Guy de Maupassant
    • Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant
    • Born: 5 August 1850
    • Died: 6 July 1893 (aged 42)
    • Novelist, short story writer, poet
    The Necklace
    1. Summary Outline
    2. Characters
    1. Roles
    2. Clues
    3. Themes
    4. Symbols
    5. Setting
    6. Narrator
    Summary Outline
    1. Introduction of Mdme. Mathilde Loisel
    2. Invitation to a Ball
    3. Dilemmas
    1. Clothes
    2. Accessories
    4. Solutions
    1. Buying clothes
    2. Borrowing the necklace
    5. Lost Necklace
    6. Replacement
    7. Debts
    8. Twist Ending
    Characters
    • Mathilde Loisel
    – Material Girl
    – Wannabe
    • M. Loisel
    – "little clerk in the Department of Education“
    – The Pleaser
    • Mme. Jeanne Forestier
    – Miss Rich
    Characters
    • Opinions
    – Mathilde
    • Actions
    – Cover ups
    – Trying to please
    • Social Class
    – Important
    • Name
    – l'oiseau=“bird”
    • “Take flight”
    Themes
    • Wealth
    – Being showy
    – Glamorous
    – Bling and Ka-ching
    • Women
    – Desperate housewife much?
    – Charm, grace and beauty
    Themes
    • Pride
    – Vanity
    – Greed
    – Lying
    • Suffering
    – Poverty
    – Karma
    Symbols
    • The Necklace
    – Pretty fake
    – Trying to hard to impress
    Setting
    • Belle Époque Paris
    – Fancy city of lights
    Narrator
    • Third-Person Omniscient
    – Focus: Mathilde
    – Other characters thoughts
    • Observant
    • Worldly-wise
    • Detached
    • understanding

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