The Necklace Rhetorical Analysis
In the article, "The Necklace", the author, Guy de Maupassant, shows the theme, be happy with who you are and what you have, throughout the story by showing how Mathilde starts out, and then how she feels about what happens to her. He shows more of the theme each time when a conflict happens between her and the other people.
To start the author shows the theme, be happy with who you are and what you have, in the beginning when she was rich and had a good life. She had married a man of a lower class, and she was unhappy with that he was a lower class. She lost all of her upper class living style since women had no class, and she was down to the bottom with her husband. This is one of the ways the author helps set up the theme, when he talked about she started out, he pointed some important things out. Like. That she was rich, she was happy. Then she married a poor man and she went to his standards, she should've been happy with who she was because she had decided to marry that man herself. She saw something in that man that no other woman had seen in him. …show more content…
On page 3, this talks about her discussions with her husband and her friend. While she talks to them both. It shows how Mathilde thinks about what to wear to the ball, and how she thinks of others that will think of her. To explain she is thinking that when she shows up to the party that others will think that she is poor, and that she doesn't know how to dress up to a ball. So, to go farther, Mathilde thinks that others will think negatively of her if she shows up to the ball in the old cloths that she wears around daily, and if she thinks that if she shows up in a fancy dress and everyone will adore her, but in reality, she should be happy with what path she has chosen and what she had
To start the author shows the theme, be happy with who you are and what you have, in the beginning when she was rich and had a good life. She had married a man of a lower class, and she was unhappy with that he was a lower class. She lost all of her upper class living style since women had no class, and she was down to the bottom with her husband. This is one of the ways the author helps set up the theme, when he talked about she started out, he pointed some important things out. Like. That she was rich, she was happy. Then she married a poor man and she went to his standards, she should've been happy with who she was because she had decided to marry that man herself. She saw something in that man that no other woman had seen in him. …show more content…
On page 3, this talks about her discussions with her husband and her friend. While she talks to them both. It shows how Mathilde thinks about what to wear to the ball, and how she thinks of others that will think of her. To explain she is thinking that when she shows up to the party that others will think that she is poor, and that she doesn't know how to dress up to a ball. So, to go farther, Mathilde thinks that others will think negatively of her if she shows up to the ball in the old cloths that she wears around daily, and if she thinks that if she shows up in a fancy dress and everyone will adore her, but in reality, she should be happy with what path she has chosen and what she had