Mathilde Loisel's The Necklace
In contradiction to what people think, the concept of fate is fake; American television actor Roger Smith once said, “You don’t just stumble into the future, you make your own”. Where is the line between hopelessly dreaming for something and it becoming reality? For a better understanding, imagine spending so much time whining and wailing about the things one doesn’t have. What will happen if they actually lose everything? Can materialism really poison one’s way of life? The desire to be rich and popular is what took Madame Loisel’s middle class stature and turned it into a life lesson. In “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, Mathilde Loisel gets so lost in the thought of becoming rich that her fear of being poor becomes reality, showing that
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Her materialistic nature lessens her overall amount of optimism and heightens her pessimistic perspective. Ironically, “From then on, Madame Loisel knew the horrible life of the very poor” (6). This is very much the heart and soul of the story. Mathilde Loisel is now actually poor, which is the author’s purpose of writing this story because she lost her friend’s valuable necklace. There is a cohesive thread of theme running through the entire story, and this line sums it up in a concise summary. Madame Loisel is so set on the sight of becoming wealthy that it sets off a chain of events that lead to the exact opposite, …show more content…
Mathilde would not be thirty-six thousand francs in debt if she had just been open about her dilemma. After the friends’ brief reunion, Madame Forestier informs Mathilde about the fraud. “’Oh, my poor Mathilde!” (7) It seems as though the word “poor” was used as wordplay. “Mine was an imitation!” (7). Finally, the truth is revealed. “It was worth five hundred francs at most!” (7). At this point, Mathilde is in complete shock. She should have told her friend that she lost her necklace because then Mathilde would not have had to lie to her and spend so much money on a real diamond necklace to replace the fake, cheap one. If Mathilde had just told the truth, she would not have become what she feared
Her materialistic nature lessens her overall amount of optimism and heightens her pessimistic perspective. Ironically, “From then on, Madame Loisel knew the horrible life of the very poor” (6). This is very much the heart and soul of the story. Mathilde Loisel is now actually poor, which is the author’s purpose of writing this story because she lost her friend’s valuable necklace. There is a cohesive thread of theme running through the entire story, and this line sums it up in a concise summary. Madame Loisel is so set on the sight of becoming wealthy that it sets off a chain of events that lead to the exact opposite, …show more content…
Mathilde would not be thirty-six thousand francs in debt if she had just been open about her dilemma. After the friends’ brief reunion, Madame Forestier informs Mathilde about the fraud. “’Oh, my poor Mathilde!” (7) It seems as though the word “poor” was used as wordplay. “Mine was an imitation!” (7). Finally, the truth is revealed. “It was worth five hundred francs at most!” (7). At this point, Mathilde is in complete shock. She should have told her friend that she lost her necklace because then Mathilde would not have had to lie to her and spend so much money on a real diamond necklace to replace the fake, cheap one. If Mathilde had just told the truth, she would not have become what she feared