sit and everybody is hungry and thirsty. During the journey‚ Madame Schachter‚ a woman of about fifty‚ had gone out of her mind. The separation and the oppressive treatment had completely broken her.by the third night of their trip‚ while everyone is asleep‚ she cried‚ “Fire! I can see a fire! I can see a fire!” Her screams became sickening in the ears of the other deportees and made them fear of the worst. Some tried to calm Madame Schachter and the others tied her up‚ gagged her and beat her
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overall affect how they develop as a person. Strengths and weaknesses can help shape how they react to a situation. Their reactions can determine how major events will play out in their future. In “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Necklace”‚ Della and Madame Loisel’s weaknesses are very different‚ but they shaped how the character developed. In “The Gift of the Magi”‚ Della is extremely Naive. She believed that selling her hair would make her husband‚ Jim happy. In the article it says‚ “Cut it off
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So many similarities and so many differences‚ but all so interesting. Two women‚ Della‚ from New York City and Madame Loisel‚ she is from Paris‚ France are both very similar characters‚ yet they are from two different short stories. Della is from “The Gift of the Magi” by O’Henry and Madame Loisel or Mathilde from “The Necklace”. Both of these short stories share very similar plots‚ but they are also very different. Starting with “The Gift of the Magi”‚ the story takes place in New York City. The
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Edgar Allen Poe. In “The Necklace” Madame Loisel lost a necklace of her friends and bought another that looked just like it and gave to her friend that she borrowed it from Madame Forestier. Because Madame Loisel lied she was afraid that Madame Forestier would see that the necklace was not the same. It took her ten years to pay off the debt that she created and right after she had finished paying the debt it is ironic that she ran into Madame Forestier. Later Madame Loisel finds out that the jewels
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The Necklace: Mathilde’s Materialistic and Selfish Strive to a Happy Life The Necklace is a short story by Guy de Maupassant. It begins with a explanation of Madame Mathilde Loisel. Though she is young and pretty‚ she and her husband are not well off financially. Her husband is only a clerk in the ministry of education. Mathilde is a very worldly person who is never content with anything in her life. Her husband is not a rich man‚ but he brings home enough to get by. Mathilde has always dreamed
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like the very definition of perfection‚ we can see that she could potentially be a great wife as well. Madame Lantin was an unremarkable woman‚ she wore simple‚ modest and clothes that remained in good taste. Through this we can assume that she doesn’t care for money and finds love much more valuable than anything else in her life. All of these things are false however after we learn that Madame Lantin was having an affair. This all begun when Mr Lantin stopped going to the theatre‚ she soon started
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Necklace”‚ Guy de Maupassant‚ uses the multiple definitions of setting to enhance the story in many ways. One of these ways is the definition that setting includes the occupations and daily manners of living of the character. By stressing the protagonist‚ Madame Loisel’s‚ personality‚ attributes‚ and actions by using the financial and occupational setting of the character to describe her‚ as well as by developing her character‚ this form of setting is shown. Due to her lower-middle-class lifestyle‚ Loisel
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classes‚ bourgeoisie and proletariat‚ are firmly established and maintained. Madame Loisel’s husband is a proletariat class worker‚ though on the higher end of that scale‚ and Madame Loisel’s friend‚ Mrs. Forestier‚ is wealthy and assumed to be a member of the bourgeoisie. By clearly defining the two social classes and having Madame Loisel desire to be a part of a class differing from her own‚ a class conflict is created. Madame Loisel‚ wishes to be a part of the bourgeoisie‚ but has no commodity or
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favor returned without ingratitude is not worth the time. Ingratitude can run the the whole purpose of doing or achieving something. For example‚ in the story "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant Madame Loisel is portrayed as an ungrateful woman because of how greedy and inconsiderate she is. To begin with‚ Madame Loisel was a very greedy woman. She feels unsatisfied with what she has and wants more. The narrator’s thoughts "She would have so loved to charm‚ to be envied‚ to be admired‚ and song after"
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Necklace Monsieur Loisel worked enough to get his wife an invitation to a party for the fancy which is mainly a lot of high class or important people. Monsieur’s wife Madame Loisel had always wanted to enjoy the life of the high class because she thought she deserved to live like them which led to some troubles in the story as Madame Loisel gathered enough money to buy a dress and had her friend buy her a fancy necklace. I believe that Monsieur Loisel is a believable character because he tried his
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