Everyone has heard the saying “honesty is the best policy” when they were younger, but is it always the best policy. The short story The Necklace written by Guy de Maupassant gives an example of a situation where honesty is the best policy. In this story, a young women named Mme. Loisel buys a new dress and borrows a diamond necklace from her friend to be the envy of the evening. After the evening was done, Mme. Loisel and her husband return home only to discover that the precious diamond necklace is no longer around her neck. Instead of being honest and telling her friend that she lost her necklace, Mme. Loisel finds a necklace identical to the one she lost and takes out loans in order to buy it. Mme. Loisel and her husband work multiple jobs …show more content…
An example of trust that was represented in The Necklace is when Mme. Forestier lends Mme. Loisel a piece of jewellery of her choice. Although it is never mentioned in the story, I infer that in the future, Mme. Forestier will be more careful if she ever lends something to Mme. Loisel since her friend didn’t tell her about the lost necklace until it was too late. Another example of how honesty is related to trust is how one lie can ruin a friendship. If you were to lie to somebody and they found out it would make it very difficult for them to trust you, and believe your promises. Trust is something that is very easy to lose, but very difficult to regain, and even one lie can put someone’s trust in you in jeopardy. This is how honesty relates to trust, and how it is important to always tell the …show more content…
One example from the story is how because Mme. Loisel was not initially honest with her friend Mme. Loisel, “…looked old now. She had become like all the other strong, course women of poor households. Her hair was badly dine, her skirts were awry, [and] her hands were red.” (pg. 8) If Mme. Loisel was honest in the first place, she would not have had to work as hard, and it would have reduced a lot of stress from her life. Another example from the story about how Mme. Loisel’s dishonest behaviour caused her stress was when she was giving Mme. Forestier the replaced necklace, and was nervous that if her friend found out that the necklace was different, would Mme. Loisel be taken for as a thief, or what her friend would think of her. I also infer that Mme. Loisel probably felt guilty for being dishonest with her friend. This is two examples from the story that demonstrate how lying and being dishonest can lead to
Many people lie and the don’t think telling the truth is the best, but telling the truth is the best thing you can do so that bad things don’t happen. In the short story the Necklace written by Guy Maupassant, Mme. Loisel learned from her own experience of being dishonest. From her being dishonest she went through ten years of hardship to pay back something that was worthless. Mme. Loisel caused her own downfall because she was greedy, dishonest, and selfish.
Madame Loisel is trying to fit in by wearing a new dress and some accessories. This shows dramatic irony, because Madame Loisel wanted to be in the upper class and feel pretty, so she borrowed the necklace from Madame Forestier. When she lost the necklace, she ended up being towards the lower class because she had to use up all of her money to replace
Loisel refuses to go unless her husband buys her an expensive dress and jewels. Instead of buying jewels, she borrows them but loses them and has to buy another to give it back . The author states,” Mme. Loisel experienced the horrible life the needy live \ She learned to do the heavy housework \
First of all it’s extremely ironic that she never knew that it was a fake necklace until she had bought the real one. In paragraph 89 it states “ Madame Loisel cam to the know the ghastly life of abject poverty. From the very first she played her part heroically. This fearful debt must be paid off. She would pay it. The servant was dismissed.They changed their flat , they took a garret under the roof.
Her pursuit to obtain this apparent life style is what left her empty at the end. After ten years of hard work and misery to pay a replacement diamond necklace, she informs her high class friend, Mme. Forestier, she lost the original necklace the night of the ball. To her surprise she discovers the necklace was fake and not worth the money they spent ten year working to pay. In this story, we observe that Madame Loisel does not notice the sacrificing love her husband has for her and simply sees him as a clerk and nothing more.
"God, but your silly! Go to your friend Mrs. Forrestier and ask her to lend you some jewelry. You know her well enough to do that." (The Necklace, Pg 7) When Matilde's husband suggests that she borrow some jewelry from one of her wealthy friends, he really had no idea what a terrible mistake he was making at the time.
Louis loses the necklace. “I have-I have-I’ve lost Mme. Forestier’s necklace.” (Maupassant 71) Mme. Louis is not grateful of the necklace she receives.
Loisel finally confesses to Mme. Forestier about the necklace. In the story “ The Necklace”, Mme. Loisel says to Mme Forestier, “Do you remember that diamond necklace you loaned me for the ministry? Yes, but what about it?
Resulting in her being very poor and so deep in debt it will take 10 years to pay off. If Mrs. Loisel told her friend about the necklace she would not have to do anything because the original was a fake. The situational
Madame Loisel’s husband takes what he has with great thanks, he uses what he has and if he didn’t have it, he worked for it. In The Necklace on line 6 and 7, “her husband came home with an exultant air, holding a large envelope in his hand” an envelope with an invitation to a party from the “Minister of Education and Madame Ramponneau...at the Ministry on the evening of Monday, January the 18th”.The Husband worked and worked for his wife to get what she wanted, and when he finally gets something she “instead of being delighted, as her husband hoped, she murmured “ What do you want me to
Madame Loisel’s pride demands more: “It annoys me not to have a single jewel, not a single stone, nothing to put on. I shall look like distress” (Maupassant 2). Ironically, it is Monsieur Loisel who suggests that his wife borrow jewelry from Madame Forestier, and subsequently has to spend the next ten years borrowing money to replace it. As May puts it, “Her husband exhausts his meager inheritance and then borrows the rest, mortgaging their life away to buy a replacement for the necklace” (May 7). Monsieur Loisel sacrifices everything to salvage his wife’s pride.
Madame Loisel is provided with a necklace from Madame Foresteir for the event, since she does not own any jewelry. Wearing the necklace exemplifies that Madame Loisel is disguising her true wealth status, so that she appears to be an upper class person. Furthermore, tangible and extortionate items make her feel happy. When she takes hold of the “superb diamond necklace, her heart started beating with an overwhelming desire. Her hands trembled as she picked it up….She
In The Necklace many events occurred. Many may have occurred because Madame Loisel attitude and honesty. Mathilde Loisel is the type of women who believes she deserves more and all the riches she could possibly get. What if her situation could have changed if she was honest? Honesty is one of the most important characteristics a person can, have and will change your whole life.
Have anyone ever borrowed something from a friend, but never returned it? Well, So Madame Loisel in “The Necklace”. The Necklace is a short story about a woman named Madame Loisel. A character who borrows a priceless necklace she asked from her friend to go to a dance. But, after the dance, she loses it.
Firstly, the necklace Mme. Loisel borrows and her perspective symbolizes the desire she has towards being wealthy and important in society. Maupassant describes effectively the aspiration Mme. Loisel had on being from the nobility all through the story by illustrating the greediness she portrays on the story. Mme. Loisel is greedy on this story due to the fact that she is never happy with what her husband can give to her and she always wants more and more. Moreover, Mme. Loisel thinks that the more money a person had the more valuable a person was. In “The Necklace”, Guy de Maupassant indirectly conveys Mme. Loisel’s real background at the beginning of the story when he points out, “She was one of those pretty and charming girls, born by a blunder of destiny in a family of