Themes In The Necklace,

By Guy De Maupassant

Introduction

The "Necklace" is a unique story, which serves as a lesson for all to learn; since life is unpredictable, we ought to be content with what we have and who we are, no matter the circumstances. The story by Guy De Maupassant, was well written and with clarity, transition from one scene to another was brilliant, and speaks a volume about the significance of contentment. The story which talks about Madame Loisel the wife of a clerk, and how her desire and greed to be like the upper class, led her and her husband to ten years of rigid labor in order to replace the missing necklace she borrowed from a friend to attend an extravagant party.

Theme

The theme that I observe in "The Necklace", by Guy De Maupassant, is a pleasure seeking and conceited wife of a clerk. The wife Mathilde who was married to a clerk that could not cater to her elaborate life style created a for her a decent or luxury life due to scarcity can only imagine those beautiful and expensive things start to develop self–indulgence and pride. Exercising the concept of self–indulgence, envy her rich friend (schoolmate) and decide not to pay her a visit since after going back to her own house is left with unsettling memories (Barnet et al, 2011). In addition, Mathilde egotism and self–indulgence led her and husband to a life of intense labor and poverty, in order to...show more content... Likewise, the narrator talks about the story from his point of view and not Mathilde, which also signifies a third person narrator. "She suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born for all the delicacies and all the luxuries. She suffered from the poverty of her dwelling, from the wretched look of the walls, from the worn–out chairs, from the ugliness of the curtains" (Barnet, Burto, Cain,