https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e en-us 2019-12-17 16:55:34 UTC 2025-12-24 01:59:38 UTC hello@padlet.com judith_macias1 https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/425091830 The plot of 
"The Necklace," by Guy de Maupassant is about how our protagonist, Mathilde 
Loisel, is invited to a ball to represent the company, but Mine. Loisel believes it's pointless as she has nothing to wear that is of value to represent to the high class. She ends up buying a dress but then complains that she has no jewelry to go with her dress, but M. Loisel reminds her that her friend,  Jeanne Forestier, may be able to lend her a piece of jewelry for the one night event. Loisel picks out a superb necklace of diamonds for the night and waltzes with many who find her elegant, deeming that night a great success. Once they arrived home, 
Mine. Loisel removed the wraps that were covering herself to see that the necklace she wore was no longer present around her neck. She and her husband search countless hours for it, but to no avail could they find it, but they come up with a plan to replace the necklace with one that looks just like it. The necklace costed forty thousand francs and they would buy it for thirty-four thousand francs, but this would take time, surely. Ten years later and the Loisels have finally paid their debt to the necklace, but Mine. Loisel was no longer the same. She looked old and had become the woman of an impoverished households, strong, hard, and rough. One Sunday, Mine. Loisel went to take a walk at Champs Elyees to refresh herself from the labors of the week when she recognized Mme. Forestier leading a child, still young, still beautiful, and still charming. Mme. Forestier is shocked by the appearance of th eonce beautiful Mine. Loisel, who is now nothing but a rough looking wife of poverty. She tells Mme. Forestier that her appearance is because of her from all those years ago when she borrowed the necklace and  had lost it but replaced it before she noticed. Mme. Forestier takes her two hands and says, "Oh, my poor Mathilde! Why. my necklace was paste. It was worth at most five hundred francs!" Maupassant, page six.]]> 2019-12-17 17:00:24 UTC https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/425091830 judith_macias1 https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/425108381 2019-12-17 17:29:33 UTC https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/425108381 judith_macias1 https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/425108801 Mine. (Mathilde) Loisel is the protagonist of the story whose life revolves around much of her beauty. She is a dynamic character that changes from the beginning of the story as a woman who had her husband do all the work she acted like a doll, and did little to nothing to a hardworking woman of poverty to help sustain  herself and her husband. Some examples of these changes throughout the story would be, "She was one of those pretty and charming girls who are sometimes, as if by a mistake of destiny, born in a family of clerks." Maupassant, page one, and, "Mine. Loisel looked old now. She had becomes the woman of impoverished households--strong and hard and rough. With frowzy hair, skirts anew, and red hands, she talked loud while washing the floor with great swishes of water." Maupassant, page five.]]> 2019-12-17 17:30:20 UTC https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/425108801 judith_macias1 https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/425109060 Madame (Mme.) Forestier is a static character within the story that is said to have been a former schoolmate of Mine. Loisel, who was married into a rich life; the direct contrast of Mine. Loisel's. Mme. Forestier does not change from the beginning of when she was first introduced to the story, and only makes few appearances, but enough to be considered another main character. Some examples of how she was no different beginning to end would be, "She had a friend, a former school-mate at the convent, who was rich, and whom she did not like to go and see any more she suffered so much when she came back." Maupassant, page one, and, "But one Sunday, having gone to take a walk in the Champ Elysees to refresh herself from the labors of the week, she suddenly perceived a woman who was leading a child. It was Mme. Forestier, still young, still beautiful, still charming." Maupassant, page five. ]]> 2019-12-17 17:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/425109060 judith_macias1 https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/425110141 The short story, "The Necklace," by Guy de Maupassant can be  classified as a Human vs. Self conflict, because Mine. Loisel could've easily avoided her conflict of having to pay the fortune of the necklace of diamonds if she would have just told Mme. Forestier in the first place. Most of the conflict is dealt with herself for thinking she belongs of high class just for thinking she is pretty enough to only be of wealth, but later is reminded the reality of not being able to afford what she wishes to drown herself in luxury. An example of this would be, "She suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born for all the delicacies and all the luxuries. She suffered from the poverty of her dwelling, from all the wretched look of the walls, from the worn-out chairs, from the ugliness of the curtains." Maupassant, page one. Getting into the real piece of conflict of washing away ten years of her life in order to be able to pay for the necklace, if she would've confessed to her wrong doings or in the first place had not been so greedy to look so "marvelous," it would have never happened.]]> 2019-12-17 17:32:40 UTC https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/425110141 judith_macias1 https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/425110545 The first example of irony is, "'Ah, the good pot-au-feu! I don't know anything better than that,'" Maupassant, page one. When researching the dish of pot-au-feu, it is the most celebrated dish in France and referred to as a dish that, "honors the table of the rich and the poor alike." The second example of irony would be, "And she smiled with a joy which was proud and naive at once. Mme. Forestier, strongly moved, took her two hands. 'Oh, my poor Mathilde! Why, my necklace was paste. It was worth at most five hundred francs!'" The reason I chose to consider this as irony is from the way the author includes that Mme. Forestier is proud but also naive to how much Mine. Loisel struggled in order to pay for a necklace that wasn't even worth what she's given her. Those ten years of savings could've benefited the Loisel's rather than having to waste it away on a piece of jewelry. ]]> 2019-12-17 17:33:24 UTC https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/425110545 judith_macias1 https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/425110682 Some examples of imagery within the text are,  "She thought of the silent antechambers hung with Oriental tapestry, lit by bronze candelabra, land of the two great footmen in knee-breeches who sleep in big arm-chairs, made drowsy by the heavy warmth of the hot-air stove." Maudassant, page one. This represents how Mine. Loisel is always imagining what life would be like or how she wished her life was if she had been married off into a family of wealth, and can also hint to how she is slightly overcome with this vision of hunger for the rich which she cannot possess. Another example would be, "All of a sudden she discovered. in a black satin box, a superb necklace of diamonds; and her began to beat with an immoderate desire." Maupassant, page three. The author may have included this in order to sway the reader into thinking like Mine. Loisel or at least give us a hint of what she feels when she sees something of luxury; something seemingly suited for her. The third example of imagery found within the text is, "She had become the woman of impoverished households--strong and hard and rough. With frowzy hair, skirts anew, and red hands, she talked loud while washing the floor with great swishes of water." Maupassant, page five. The author may have included this specific piece of imagery to present the contrasting ideas from the beginning of the story to the end, which directly shows how Mine. Loisel has changed from one little mistake of losing the necklace.]]> 2019-12-17 17:33:42 UTC https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/425110682 judith_macias1 https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/425556432 One example of figurative language is, "'It annoys me not to have a single jewel, not a single stone, nothing to put on. I shall look like distress. I should almost rather not go at all.'" Maupassant, page two. This compares Mine. Loisel to distress as a way of saying without jewelry she will look like an utter disaster. The second example of figurative language would be, "They looked, thunderstruck, at one another." Maupassant, page four. This is an example of an idiom, the meaning of being extremely surprised by something unexpected, in this case, it's about what they should do in order to find Mme. Forestier's lost necklace. ]]> 2019-12-18 16:56:59 UTC https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/425556432 judith_macias1 https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/425556576 The theme of The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant could be that lying always comes with a cost. I feel this is a theme that fits the story since if MIne. Loisel would've told her in the first place about how she accidentally lost her necklace, she might've still been someone "beautiful."]]> 2019-12-18 16:57:14 UTC https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/425556576 judith_macias1 https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/425991367 2019-12-19 17:33:25 UTC https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/425991367 judith_macias1 https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/425991798 The short story, "The Necklace," by Guy de Maupassant can also be classified as a Human vs. Society conflict because Mine. Loisel will never be able to escape poverty, especially with the necklace that wasn't even worth how much she paid for it. It was seemingly inevitable that sooner or later she would have to work to continue her way of living, and end up looking like a woman of poverty. ]]> 2019-12-19 17:34:03 UTC https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/425991798 judith_macias1 https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/426275595 The short story, "The Necklace," by Guy de Maupassant can also be classified as a Human vs. Nature conflict, because Mine. Loisel search parts of France (especially the outdoors) in order to find the necklace she lost, which is futile as she never finds it. ]]> 2019-12-20 16:05:15 UTC https://padlet.com/judith_macias1/jx34nbzdrt2e/wish/426275595