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Character Analysis Of Madame Loisel In The Necklace

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Guy de Maupassant’s character Madame Loisel in his short story, The Necklace, is a realistic person; she has a round, dynamic character. The reason why she is so realistic, is because everyone feels or behaves like they should have things that they deserve. If people think they work hard, and they deserve food, that a realistic thought. But sometimes getting carried away with the things you think you deserve can get you into trouble. Madame Loisel was a whiny girl. She did not appreciate the things she had. So trouble erupts. But in the end, Madame Loisel learns her lesson and becomes humble. But sometimes you need to be taught a lesson, to see the important things in life. But first Madame Loisel starts out as a whiny girl. Madame Loisel feels like life cheated her; she believes she should have married a rich man instead of the hard working clerk she did marry. She doesn’t think that she should have the life she has, because she thinks she needs better finer goods for herself. Madame Loisel thinks about being fascinated by all. Her cooking would be the talk of the town and no one could compete with her dinners. “When dining at the round table covered for the third day with the same cloth, opposite her husband, who would raise the cover of the soup tureen, declaring delightly, “ ‘Ah! A good stew! There’s nothing I like better…’ ” she would dream of fashionable dinner parties, of gleaming silverware, of tapestries making the walls alive with characters out of history and strange birds in a fairyland forest; she would dream of delicious dishes served on wonderful china, of gallant compliments whispered and listened to with a sphinxlike smile as one eats the rosy flesh of a trout or nibble at the wing of a grouse” (lines 26-34). When Madame Loisel thinks about having greater items beyond her reach, she expects greater, more expensive things, such as bigger utensils and fine silk. She did not realize the hard working husband, she had, or the items she possessed meant so much to her, because she believed she deserved much better. When she realized she could not have the things she could not afford, nor have, she threw a fit and wept for days, “She had a well-to do friend, a classmate of convent-school days whom

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