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Name:________________________

Mrs. Revera/Ms. Docherty


English 9.
Date:_________________________

Title: “The Necklace” Author: Guy de Maupassant

Setting: Time 18th Century (1700s) Mood: Mathilde:

Place Paris, France Depressed: “She suffered constantly, feeling that all the
attributes of a gracious life…should rightly have been hers”
(536).
Excited: “…she came upon a superb diamond necklace, and
her heart started beating with overwhelming desire” (538).
Characters: Mathilde Loisel – middle-class woman Conflict: Man vs Man
who is materialistic and dreams of being in Man vs Nature
the rich, upper class. Man vs Himself

Mr. Loisel – Mathilde’s husband who is caring


and generous. He gives the money that he
has saved to Mathilde for her dress. Mathilde vs. herself – she must decide whether or
not to attend the ball and ask for a new dress.
Madame Forestier – Mathilde’s friend who
allows her to borrow her necklace. Mr. Loisel vs. himself – He decides to give the
money that he has saved for his rifle to his wife so that
she can buy a new dress.

M. & Mme. Loisel vs. themselves – they decide


to lie to Mme. Forestier about losing the necklace and
tell her that it’s broken.

Foreshadowing: Imagery:
“I didn’t sell this necklace, madame. I only supplied the “She dreamt of thick carpeted reception rooms with
case” (539). – The jeweler whose name was on the case did not Oriental hangings, lighted by tall, bronze
recognize the necklace. torches…”(536). – Mathilde’s dream is described in
great detail so that the reader can picture it in their
mind.
“She didn’t open the case as her friend had feared she
might” (540). – Madame Forestier was not worried about the “Disheveled, her skirts askew, with reddened hands,
necklace, as she did not open the box to check on it. she spoke in a loud voice, slopping water over the
floors as she washed them” (540). – Paying back the
money for the necklace has taken a toll on Mathilde,
physically, as she has aged and looks exhausted.
Irony: Symbolism:

We think the necklace is real BUT it ends Diamond necklace – The necklace represents
up being fake. After all that Mathilde and her Mathilde’s desire and dream to be something she is not
husband went through to repay the money for the replacement (rich, upper-class).
diamond necklace, the real one she borrowed was fake.
Plain wrap – The wrap represent Mathilde’s reality and
is a reminder that she is ordinary and middle-class.

Theme: Greed – Mathilde’s greed for material things leads to Other Techniques:
her downfall .
Climax: Mathilde realizes that she has lost Madame
Dishonesty – Mathilde lied about the necklace to Madame Forestier’s necklace at the ball.
Forestier and, therefore, ruins her life trying to replace the Hyperbole: Mr. Loisel aged five years (from stress).
necklace that wasn’t even real in the first place.

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