Theresa Yang September 2, 2011 The Necklace - Character Analysis Essay The old saying goes, “a diamond is a girl’s best friend.” In this story, “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, diamonds certainly aren’t a girl’s best friends. Mathilde Loisel (the protagonist of this story) is “one of those pretty and charming girls,” (pg. 221) who is born into a family of clerks. She often dreams of the wealth she doesn’t have and “silent antechambers, heavy with Oriental tapestries, lit by torches in lofty bronze sockets.” (Pg. 221) Even though the invitation to an evening reception is the invitation she has always hoped for, she feels miserable for she has neither dress nor jewelry worthy of going to such an occasion.
Wauchope Welch English 1102 20 March 2012 The main character of The Necklace, Mathilde Loisel, is a woman who feels that she is entitled to the many wonderful things that life has to offer. Although she is beautiful and charming, she feels that she was born into a lowly ranked family and was married off to a lowly clerk. She is a woman who didn’t have a hard lifestyle, but still wants more. She wanted excitement, wonderful meals, and extravagant clothing. She wanted to live a more lavish lifestyle, but later she will find that the life she has is much better than the life that she will obtain later in life.
It represents her social class. However, since she becomes greedy, it leads to her doom. She borrows the necklace from Madame Forestier for a party, but when she gets home she misplaces the necklace and is forced to borrow a great amount of cash to buy a replacement. The necklace in this story can be deceiving. Throughout the story, all the characters think that necklace is attested, however Madame Forestier reveals at the end of the story that it is actually an imitation.
Sometimes lying and not telling the truth will get you in worse situations. In this story, Madame Loisel, the wife, is going to a party and wants to look like someone that she’s not. Madame Loisel borrows a diamond necklace from her rich friend. While on the way home she loses the necklace and doesn’t tell her friend. Instead she hides that she lost it and bought a new diamond necklace.
William Horn Mr.Rininger English 9 16 October 2014 Expository Composition Essay In life people find things that hold value, to be an interest. Sometimes these interests can become obsessions, and we will begin to look at our obsessive values as self-worth and self-definition. Guy De Maupassant wrote this splendid story called The Necklace, which is about a woman named Mathilde who is not happy with what she has earned and lived with in life and does whatever she can to change her life for her idea of a better life. Mathilde wants to be rich so she can afford fine clothing, go to fancy parties, and have a steady and large social life. When Mathilde gets invited to the fancy party, she begins to be frightened with what she will wear because she does not have many clothes in her closet and the few clothes that Mathilde does have in her closet are simply plain clothing wear that she would be ashamed to be seen worn in public.
Myrtle started acting like a rich person just because of a material object. This is materialistic because Myrtle acts rich just because of a dress. Myrtle shows her materialistic qualities when she says “It’s just a crazy old thing; I just slip it on sometimes when I don’t care what I look like.”(pg31) This leads to Myrtle thinking of George in a materialistic manner in the next example. Because George didn’t have enough money to buy a fancy new suit for his wedding day he borrowed one from someone. When Myrtle finds out about this she gets mad at George.
(www.Cliffnotes.com) Although Fitzgerald makes her despite being beautiful and charming, Daisy’s very selfish, shallow and a mean person. Moreover, Daisy truthfully married tom for his money and didn’t care what he did, unless and so long as he could continue to buy her anything she wanted. Daisy also would hope that her child was a girl, so that she’d be like her and survived the way she did “And I hope she’ll be a fool-that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”. (Pg. 17 Scott Fitzgerald ;) Daisy was implying that the best way a female was to survive in this world was to be attractive and not do anything with her life, and sit back and let money buy her happiness.
She may seem like a good girl but she only marries Tom for his money, for “the pearls...around her neck” (76). She really loves Gatsby but is not going to wait around for him, especially since he does not have much money coming out of the war. So she finds a wealthy, handsome man and marries him instead. At this point, it may seem as though she is living the American Dream because she has a family, a lot of money, and possesses many beautiful objects. But that is not the case.
The Great Gatsby The women in The Great Gatsby are primarily concerned with money, pleasure and social status to the extent that it compromises their moral values. Teagan Smith 12AB The three main female characters in ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F Scott Fitzgerald, are Daisy, Jordan and Myrtle. Each woman represents a different typical group of women in the nineteen twenties. Despite their many differences, all three women behave immorally in order to live a particular lifestyle, regardless of the consequences. Daisy is introduced in the novel when wearing an airy, white dress, which has pure and angelic connotations.
She excited Gatsby in the way that “... many men had already loved Daisy- it increased her value in his eyes”(149); she was untouchable . Myrtle Wilson is another character who desired a life far from the one she was living. She married George Wilson, a hardworking car mechanic who loved her, yet pursued Tom Buchanan, a narcissistic, married, violent man. Tom offered Myrtle an escape from her simplistic lifestyle and provided her with the luxuries that Wilson could not give her. Myrtle yearned to be the epitome of Tom’s desires by wearing fancy dresses and deeming herself as higher than her class (31).