The story The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant is a biting criticism of vanity. It takes the place of the life and desires of Madame Loisel who dreams of being adorn with bauble and fine dresses. Her self esteem causes her constant irritation in life. Giving Promises to the disappointments in Mathilde’s life, Maupassant develops in mind a bitter picture of a life wasted. The Author makes full use of irony in the story, in describing her situation in life, her empty accomplishment, and the result of conceit.
First of all the story is arrangement with the statement to women has no social class or caste their physical attractiveness, loveliness, and charm serving them for birth or family and put the slum girl on a level with the highest lady of the world. Mathilde hopes that she was born for every luxury and indulgence, but that she had married in a lower place herself. She dreams of being desired by many men and the center of care. Mathilde pride and vanity are very huge to her stature. In spite of her longings, she finds herself married to an assistant in the Ministry of Education. The association is that Mathilde does not posses the characteristics of a woman of high social standing. The irony here is that if Mme.
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Loisel is thrown into hopelessness because she does not have the proper clothing. Her husband gives her his provision for future for her attire. She then needs the flawless necklace that she takes for temporary use from a rich friend. When she gets back home from the ball, however, she finds the necklace is no longer around her neck. All the happiness she had that at ball, all her wishes ended up being nothing and meaningless. Regardless of the fulfillment of her greatest hopes and the vanities of her self esteem, this is decreased to nothing as she and her husband must now struggle to find and to get other diamonds to replace the lost