A Character Analysis of Mathilde Loisel in The Necklace, a.
After taking her husband’s recommendation to borrow jewelry, specifically a diamond necklace, from her close friend Madame Forestier to wear alongside her dress at the evening reception, the main character later discovers that she had lost the necklace. Following their failure to find the necklace, Madame and Monsieur Loisel devise a plan to borrow money to replace the necklace with another.
Madame Forestier. Madame Jeanne Forestier is a rich young woman and lends her school friend, Madame Loisel, the necklace to wear to the ball. Jeweler 1. Jeweler 1 is the person whose name appears on the box containing Madame Forestier's expensive necklace. Jeweler 2.
The The Necklace quotes below are all either spoken by Mathilde Loisel or refer to Mathilde Loisel. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: ). Note: all page numbers and citation info for the.
Looking at Guy De Maupassant’s piece “The Necklace”, we see a very clear development of the main character Mathilde. In the story, we see a change in her attitude about life. This change come about when she has to learn one of life’s little lessons the hard way. She and her husband are forced to live a life of hard work and struggle because of her own selfish desires. Mathilde changes.
In “The Necklace” author Guy De Maupassant describes the story of a young woman who no matter how much she has, she wants more. Mathilde is a beautiful woman but is only middle class. She wants nothing more than to be rich and have a big home. She borrows a necklace from a friend to go to a ball and she looses the necklace. She works for ten years to pay off the necklace and when she goes.
Being unsatisfied, Matilda borrows a necklace from good friend Madame Forestier. After the affair, Matilda finds out that necklace is lost. Loisels started to find money to buy a new necklace: Loisel possessed eighteen thousand franks, which his father had left him. He borrowed it, asking for a thousand francs of one, five hundred of another, five louis of this one, and three louis of that one.
In The Necklace a women named Mathilde is lended a diamond necklace for a ball by a women named Madame Forestier. When she and her husband get home from the ball, they realize the diamond necklace is missing. Instead of telling Madame Forestier she lost her necklace, Mathilde and her husband decide to buy her a new one. When they finally tell Madame Forestier they lost her necklace, she told.