Situational Irony In Madame Forestier's The Necklace

The most important literary term that is used most often out of all of the stories is situational irony. Situational irony is when the opposite of what one expects to happen occurs. The situational irony was all about Madame Forestier’s necklace that Madame Loisel lost. At the end of the story, Madame Loisel, who despised hard work and everything in the world that is not glamorous, finds out that she had given up her life to replace her friends necklace that she eventually discovers is only a fake. When Madame Loisel decided to tell Madame Forestier about how she lost her necklace, the reader expected Madame Forestier to be upset. But, instead, we all found out that Madame Forestier’s original necklace was only a fake and was worth hardly anything
A conflict in literature is any struggle between two opposing forces. The main conflict in the story was an external conflict which is a struggle between the main character and outside force. Madame Loisel lost the necklace, so she has to sacrifice her way of living to give back what she lost. Madame Loisel decides that she isn’t going to tell her friend that she lost her necklace because the pride that she has won’t let her. As a result of her dishonesty, she and her husband work off all of the money they borrowed to replace the necklace. Maupassant wrote, “Mme Loisel now knew the horrible life of necessity. She did her part, however, completely, heroically. It was necessary to pay this frightful debt. She would pay it. They sent away the maid; they changed their lodgings; they rented some rooms under a mansard roof” (164). Many parts of this story involved mostly internal conflict with the way that Madame Loisel thought of herself compared to everyone else and her discontent with the way that she is living. When her husband thought that her cooking was spectacular, she was ashamed of how boring her cooking was because she was unable to afford anything else. Monsieur Loisel thinks getting into a high-class party would be a wonderful thing; she only sees it as another chance to embarrass herself and show everyone what she doesn’t have. She is only happy with jewels when
“The Monkey’s Paw” written by W.W. Jacobs was not the best written short story using literary terms including characterization in many ways. For characters, it gives the reader hardly any details about the characters. This makes it difficult for the reader to make a good connection to the story. The reader only knows some of the relationships between the character’s, but barely any personality traits. “The Gift of the Magi” written by O. Henry was not the best written short story using literary terms such as conflict either. The conflict that was identified in this story was not very important. There were many other ways to solve their problem, and also avoid the situational irony that occurred at the end of the story. “Man from the South” written by Roald Dahl was not the best written short story using literary terms such as a strong situational irony as well. For situational irony, it wasn’t shocking that the old man was up to something suspicious. From the beginning of the story, you could tell that the old man was trying to mess with the young boy and trying to fool him and make him do something that he might regret later. It was no surprise to the reader that he was going to do something unexpected and that he would turn out to be hiding