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There are many conflicts in “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant. Madame Loisel is a middle class woman who wants to be higher in class, and borrows a necklace to seem higher class, but then has to face the conflict of losing the necklace, and needing to replace it.

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Madame Loisel had tried too hard to solve her problem of being middle class which led her to poverty, “She came to know the heavy work of the house, the hateful duties of the kitchen. She washed the plates, wearing out her pink nails on the coarse pottery and the bottoms of pans.” Madame Loisel had thought that fixing her status would make her happier, but it only led her to be a lower class, and more upset than before in middle class.

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After losing the necklace she had borrowed to pretend to be “upper class” for a party, Madame Loisel is fearful of her mistake. “She waited all day long, in the same state of bewilderment at this fearful catastrophe.” Losing the special charm caused Madame Loisel frustration and fear, as she realized it was not right of her to try to be someone she’s not, and she should’ve known that being higher class would not make her happier.

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Many events throughout "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant greatly contribute to the theme of status not being everything and happiness being defined by mindset, such as the ending plot twist, and after the party when Madame Loisel and Mr. Loisel returned to their apartment.

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In "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant, Mr. Loisel is a clerk, not a rich first-class man, yet he is happy with what he has accomplished and he is able to find joy out of the little things that matter to him in his life.

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Mr. Loisel lives in the moment, and he enjoys the moments flying around him instead of wishing for something he does not have. "Aha! Scotch broth! What could be better?" While his wife is imagining a fancy banquet, Mr. Loiself is happy with what he has, and therefore he is a happier person because he chooses to spend his life enjoying the present instead of wishing for a different future.

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Mr. Loisel shows that your actions define your level of happiness instead of status. Mr. Loisel had been saving up for a gun for a while, and he was looking forward to going to the shooting range with his friends. "Very well. I'll give you four hundred francs." Mr. Loisel was willing to give up something important to him so his wife would be happy at the party. His wife was not satisfied with what she had so she took what was his, yet he still was a happy man because he made the woman he loved feel better in her own skin.

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The necklace in "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant symbolizes Madame Loisel's biggest dreams and biggest fantasies. The necklace that brought her so much self-confidence turned out to be fake, and this symbolizes that the happiness she got from being seen as elegant was fake and was based on a lie.

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Madame Loisel gained happiness from the fact that she had a real diamond necklace and a fancy ballgown at the ball, but this confidence was based on a lie. "Oh, my poor Mathilde! But mine was imitation. It was worth at the very most five hundred francs! " The necklace was not real diamonds, and if Madame Loisel had known this, she would not have worn it and she would have been self-concious. This shows that her happiness is based on other's opinions about her and is based on her status, but happiness based on lies does not last forever. True happiness lasts much longer, and true happiness is not caused by being seen as rich.

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Madame Loisel would have been better off if she had never spent so much on a dress or a replacement necklace, and it shows even more that happiness is not built on possessions. "I brought you another one just like it. And for the last ten years we have been paying for it. You realize it wasn't easy for us; we had no money. . . ." This quote shows that even though for one night she had the fanciest dress and necklace at a party, the happiness based on possesions fades away and the only thing left over are consequences.

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At the end of the story, Madame Forestier reveals that her original necklace that is now lost had been worth little to nothing and was actually fake. "'Oh, my poor Mathilde! But mine was imitation. It was worth at the very most five hundred francs!'" Status isn’t everything Madame Loisel thought it was, and we can learn from this that status can easily be faked, and trying to be higher than you are can just bring you lower.

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During the party, Madame Loisel is thrilled and happy that she is fitting in with the upper class folks. Once she returns to her apartment she instantly becomes upset, because she sees she is returning to her home where she is not rich. “It brought them to their door in the Rue des Martyrs, and sadly they walked up to their own apartment. It was the end, for her.” Madame believes that it is “the end” for her because she can’t be rich and who she wants to be. She should've realized at the time that what she had was great compared to others, and she should have changed her mindset, because when she becomes poor she sees how good she had it.

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Madame Loisel in the story "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant is always unhappy with her status. When she was in the middle class, she was unhappy and when she was in the lower class she was unhappy. Madame Loisel also believed that she deserved more in life. This led to a downfall that made her lose everything in life.

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The story of "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant is based in Paris, France. The main characters' home is described as shabby with dirty walls and ugly curtains. Madame Loisel, one of the main characters, attends a party which takes place in the heart of Paris. The contrast between these two settings shows the contrast between statuses.

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Madame Loisel was never satisfied with her life whether she was middle class and able to afford nice things with just a bit of work or lower class. Madame wishes and dreams of a lavish life. When Madame Loisel was attending the party she asked her husband to buy her a dress, "He turned a little pale, because he had been saving that exact amount to buy a gun and treat himself to a hunting trip the following summer..." This quote shows her husbands reaction and his sacrifice for Madame Loisel's greed. It also shows the contrast between their personalities.

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In the age of the story, nobility was made up of how much someone was worth. Money is what makes one able to afford the nice items Madame Loisel desires, "She dreamed of silent antechambers hung with Oriental tapestries, lit from above by torches in bronze holders, while two tall footmen in knee-length breeches napped in huge armchairs." She desired these items that'd make her more noble and there is probably a large amount of pressure on her to attain these items to the point where it affects her happiness.

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Madame Loisel's appearances change drastically throughout the story. Her appearances go from being described as, "She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as if by an error of fate, into a family of clerks," the way she dressed was also described as average, "She dressed plainly because she had never been able to afford anything better, but she was as unhappy as if she had once been wealthy." She had always wanted more expensive clothes than what she had, but she could never afford them. Over the 10 years of working where she tried to pay back the necklace that could've easily changed if she hadn't lost the necklace, she went from being youthful and young to looking old, "Madame Loisel looked old now. She had become strong, hard and rough like all women of impoverished households. With hair half combed, with skirts awry, and reddened hands, she talked loudly as she washed the floor with great swishes of water." She had worked so hard for the past ten years that Madame had began to look old. She paid for short lived happiness by working and working for ten years. If she had been happier with her possessions earlier none of this would've happened.

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Madame Loisel and her husband are said to live in a shabby apartment described as, "She suffered because of the poorness of her house as she looked at the dirty walls, the worn-out chairs and the ugly curtains." This set back on her dreams makes her very unhappy especially with the societal need to have these items she felt average and did not like that. When she attended the party it was described as lavish and was also set in an expensive part of town. The party showed her what her dream life would look like and only made her more unhappy.