The Necklace Symbols: the necklace by Katie Ha https://padlet.com/kha107/v3p99mnmfada Katie Ha, Roger Nguyen en-us 2018-09-20 15:33:39 UTC 2025-12-02 17:12:07 UTC hello@padlet.com "He compromised the rest of his life, risked signing notes without knowing if he could ever honor them, and, terrified by the anguish still to come, by the black misery about to fall on him, by the prospect of every physical privation and every moral torture he was about to suffer, he went to get the new necklace, and laid down on the jeweler's counter thirty-six thousand francs." (Maupassant, 205) kha107 https://padlet.com/kha107/v3p99mnmfada/wish/283985803 The passage displays the outcome of wanting the necklace, which is that the family has to compromise their morals and values to pay for the necklace. The necklace represent's Mathilde's greed and her ultimate downfall to it. She wanted to be rich for her whole life, but her materialistic point of view led her to an actually worse life than she already had. Her husband has to make ruinous deals to pay for necklace and use his father's money. Therefore, the necklace represents greed and how morals can be compromised due to greed.]]> 2018-09-20 15:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kha107/v3p99mnmfada/wish/283985803 The Necklace discussion kha107 https://padlet.com/kha107/v3p99mnmfada/wish/283990399 The necklace in Guy Maupassant's short story The Necklace displays Mathilde's greed and deception in the form of an object. It symbolizes materialism, lies, and Mathilde's intense wish for luxury. The necklace is introduced on page 202 when Mme. Loisel finds it in Mme. Forestier's closet and asks to borrow it to attend the evening reception. Mme. Forestier says yes and Mathilde goes to the reception looking wealthy and making everyone envy her. 
The necklace is  developed to be the center of Mathilde's materialistic motivation. After the party, the necklace gets lost; Mathilde notices this when she gets home. So, M. and Mme. Loisel spend ten years to buy a replacement. Despite her dreams to lead a better lifestyle, she has to learn to clean and work due to her attachment to the necklace. The necklace is concluded in the story when Madame Forestier reveals that it was fake and wasn't worth more than five hundred francs the whole time. The surprising ending eludes to the idea that looks can be deceiving and how the necklace embodied that.]]> 2018-09-20 15:43:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kha107/v3p99mnmfada/wish/283990399 "Mme. Forestier, quite overcome, clasped her by the hands. 'Oh, my poor Mathilde. But mine was fake. Why, at most it was worth only five hundred francs!'" (Maupassant, 200) kha107 https://padlet.com/kha107/v3p99mnmfada/wish/284420184 The passage illustrates Madame Forestier admitting to Mathilde that the necklace was not made of real diamonds. This exemplifies the necklace symbolizing that looks are never what they seem.  Since the very beginning of its introduction, the necklace was used to fool others. Mathilde and Madame Forestier both used the necklace to seem rich and high class. In Mathilde's case, she wore it to the evening reception to look wealthy to others; whereas, in Mme. Forestier's case, she used it as a way to flaunt her wealth. This really displays how the necklace is symbolic for deceit because Mme. Forestier and Mme. Loisel both hid behind it to try and conjure up an affluent image. They used it to try and look a class that they were, in reality, not. On top of all this, the necklace was cheap and not even real, so Mathilde and Mme. Forestier was not showing off anything but a string of lies.]]> 2018-09-21 15:13:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kha107/v3p99mnmfada/wish/284420184 The Necklace kha107 https://padlet.com/kha107/v3p99mnmfada/wish/284436391 2018-09-21 15:44:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kha107/v3p99mnmfada/wish/284436391