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" indicating
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twenty dollars with her to the store. Twenty dollars today wouldn’t buy the newest toy let alone a fancy chain for a watch. Additionally‚ when Madame Loisel called a cab to go home from the party he “cab” was a horse-drawn carriage. Also‚ both women are very lucky to have husband that care and love for them enough to do anything they can to make them content. Madame Loisel’s husband does everything he can to keep his wife satisfied‚ which is a difficult task. He gets her an invitation to a very exclusive
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---------- Task 1: Mathilde Loisel is a wholly unsympathetic character who brings about her downfall and deserves her fate. How far do you agree with this assessment of her character? Remember to comment on how language‚ view point and tone convey character and meaning in the story. In‘The Necklace’‚ Guy de Maupassant introduces a character full of faults. Indeed Mathilde Loisel comes across as a wholly unsympathetic protagonist for whom the reader feels nothing but contempt. She accepts neither
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women dream of living a rich life‚ full of luxury‚ riches and servants. In the short story "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant‚ a middle-class woman named Madame Loisel desires that life style very much. In "The Necklace" Madame Loisel’s vain desires cause many conflicts and her ultimate downfall. One small conflict in the story is Madame Loisel vs. her husband. He is always trying to make his wife satisfied and she never appreciates him or their way of life. De Maupassant makes this clear in the
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have the best luck. She would always dream of having the “perfect life”‚ but it never came to her. Although Madame Loisel’s emotions stayed the same‚ she does have a moment where she feels better than everyone else in the world. First‚ the emotion that Madame Loisel shows all the time is sadness and depression. She was the type of person who didn’t take what she had for granted. Madame Loisel always thought that she needed more and that more was better. She always dreamed of having a better house
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love can make them do crazy things when not intended. Although this message is presented in different ways throughout all forms of literature. In Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace‚” Madame Loisel loses the necklace that she had previously borrowed from a friend and her husband Monsieur loisel meticulously searches the streets to find the necklace which doesn’t turn up and have to work hard to pay it off not knowing that the necklace is of little value. Contrariwise‚ in O. Henry’s short
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conflict is when Mathilde‚ or Mme. Loisel‚ the protagonist‚ does not have a dress to wear to the ball that her husband was invited to through a few struggles. When her kind husband asks her why she was upset‚ she says‚ “‘Oh‚ nothing. Only I don’t have an evening dress and therefore I can’t go to that affair’” (Maupassant 29). For this reason‚ her husband buys her a dress worth four hundred francs to keep her happy. An example that shows an external conflict is when Mme. Loisel loses the necklace
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story “The gift of the Magi” both of the characters‚ Della and James‚ sacrifice the most important things they had (Della’s hair and James’s watch) to give the other happiness to find out the gifts were useless in the end while in “The Necklace”‚ Madame Loisel sacrifices both her own and her husband’s youth to pay for her friend’s necklace that she lost just to find out that the necklace was faux‚ to represent the theme of sacrifice. In both of these stories‚ the authors used irony effectively to highlight
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a grand ball. He has no idea that Mathilde had nothing to wear. But he is prepared to solve this. He painfully asks her “how much it would cost for a suitable
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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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