“ The Necklace ” is a narrative written by the 19-th century French writer Guy de Maupassant. The writer of poetries, play, and novels, Maupassant belongs to the realistic school. He is considered as the most celebrated maestro of short narratives, a “ Jeweler of Language ” , as some critics say about him, and a adept expert of human psyches. He tells us a dramatic narrative of Mathilde Loizel whose desire for wealth terminals in catastrophe. From the simple logic of a statement, claiming that it is unsafe to borrow person else ‘s expensive thing, Maupassant leads the reader through the cardinal subjects of this narrative -themes of wealth and agony.

Mathilde Loisel is a immature adult females, capturing, beautiful and romantic. Born in a household of hapless clerks, she married a hapless clerk as ” she had no dowery, no outlooks, no agencies of being known, understood, loved, married by a adult male rich and distinguished. ( 1 ) ” She wishes to populate another life, a life of luxury and wealth, but the desire to populate glamourous life comes into a painful struggle with her mundane suffering being. The subject of wealth is of import to understanding this narrative. Mathilde is concerned about wealth. She is non avaricious, but instead covetous, unable to be satisfied with what she has. She has all needed to belong to a hihr category exept wealth. “ She was simple since she could non be adorned ; but she was unhappy as though kept out of her ain category ; for adult females have no caste and no descent, their beauty, their grace, and their appeal functioning them alternatively of birth and luck. Their native acuteness, their natural elegance, their flexibleness of head, are their lone hierarchy ; and these make the girls of the people the peers of the most exalted dolls. ( 2 ) Mathilde believes she was born to be affluent. She is covetous of affluent people and hates her current state of affairs. Spending all twenty-four hours entirely with nil to make and desperately woolgathering about the go outing life that she does non hold, she escapes from ennui and despair into a universe of phantasies. “ She let her mind dwell on the quiet anterooms, hung with Oriental tapestries, lighted by tall lamps of bronzeaˆ¦ She let her mind dwell on the big parlours, decked with old silk, with their delicate furniture, back uping cherished knickknack, and on the flirtatious small suites, perfumed, prepared for the five o’clock chat with the most intimate friends, work forces good known and sought after, whose attendings all adult females envied and desired. ” ( 3 ) She sees herself surrounded by extraordinary people and fantastically rich immature work forces. To be affluent besides means for Mathilda ” to be envied, to be seductive and sought after. ” ( 5 ) . Sadly, his life exists merely in her imaginativeness. Mathilde has no friends, exept Mme. Forestier “ whom she did non desire to travel and see any more, so much did she endure as she came off ” . ( 6 ) Matilda wholly depends on her hubby who seems to love her, but is non excessively sensitive to her agonies. He is proud of his beautiful life, has many friends, and reasonably satisfied with life. M.Loisel is non really ambitious and has no purpose of altering anything. Unlike her hubby, Mathilde is really unhappy ; she spends her yearss shouting from sorrow and anguish. .Mathilde believes that she is worthy of better things and deserves to be a member of higher category. The twenty-four hours of party becomes the twenty-four hours of her personal victory. In her new frock and cherished diamond necklace, beautiful and glamourous, Matilde is greatly admired by all work forces. She is “ elegant, gracious, smiling, and mad with joy ” . For the first clip in her life, her visual aspect, self-esteem, outlooks and environing lucifer. ” She danced with delectation, with passion, intoxicated with pleasance, thought of nil, in the victory of her beauty, in the glorification of her successaˆ¦so Sweet to a adult female ‘s bosom. ” ( 54 ) Now, she is equal to ladies of high society, but her wealth is illusive and bogus as her borrowed necklace. This narrative lasts merely few hours. Merely after the party, when she put on her old shabby coat seeking to avoid being noticed, the dream disappears. In a haste, Matilde loses the necklace. Buying a new necklace put the Loisels into poorness even worse that it was. The following 10 old ages become the old ages of enduring.aˆ¦until the debt is paid. The subjects of wealth and agony are connected in this narrative. We can follow them from the beginning of the narrative, when we foremost run into Mathilde Loisel enduring from despairing desires, to the terminal when we see her agony from hideous poorness and difficult labour. Even in the eventide of her victory, she suffered neosoznanno from the fakeness of desivessness of the state of affairs because the succsess was soprazen with a large pain.. Sometimes, it is hard to read about agonies she experiences because of inhuman treatment of life, bad fortune, personal errors and defects. She ruined her life, and she lost her best trweasure- beauty. When Mathilde meets Mme. Forestier, still immature and beautiful, she even does non acknowledge Mathilde. She deserves regard for how she goes through much sorrow. “ Mme. Loisel learned the atrocious life of the needy. She made the best of it, furthermore, honestly, heroically. ” She does n’t hold friends or relatieves to inquire for aid.

Matilde is greatly responsible for her agonies. She was obsessed with wealthaˆ¦.andaˆ¦ , but if we look at this narrative otherwise, her desires and behaviour are apprehensible. She is a immature capturing adult females. She wants to be happy, non to endure from poorness and humiliation. To be affluent is non needfully to be bad, and poorness does non do a individual happy or more virtuous. She is excessively beautiful, feminine and romantic to populate ordinary life. What if she truly was born “ for every daintiness and luxury ” ? We barely can fault Matrilde, but sympathize with her and learn lessons.