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The Necklace
By: Guy de Maupassant

2. The Necklace Elements of the Story: Setting Characters Plot Conflict
Climax
Theme
Point of view

3. The Necklace General details Title: Author: Main idea The Necklace
Guy de Maupassant
Main idea
We don’t not need material things to make us happy

4. The Necklace
Setting:
"The Necklace" takes place in Paris, on January the 18th, at the Ministry of Education's party. The outcome of the story took more than 10 years.

5. The Necklace Characters
Mathilde Loisel {Madame Loisel} - Pretty and charming girl but unhappy with her poor lifestyle. This turned her jealous, smug and greedy person.
Monsieur Loisel - Mathilde’s husband. Hard worker, sensitive, comprehensive, willing with his wife and sacrificed his own future to help her.
Jeanne Forestier {Madame Forestier} - Mathilde’s wealthy friend. She treats Mathilde kindly, but Mathilde is bitterly jealous of Madame Forestier’s wealth, and the kindness pains her.

6. The Necklace
Plot:
This story is about a woman, Madame Loisel, who was beautiful but unhappy with her social life and poor lifestyle. One day her husband, Monsieur Loisel, received an invitation to a party at the Ministry on the evening of Monday, January the 18th. He was excited, but she got mad because she don’t had a nice dress to go to this party and she start crying.
Her husband sacrificed his savings and gave her to buy a new dress and she did, but she don’t was satisfied because she don’t had jewels too.
She went to a her wealthy friend, Madame Forestier, to borrow a jewel and she got it. Her friend lend her a necklace of diamonds. The day of the party was success. She was beauty, elegant and graceful. She danced madly, ecstatically, drunk with pleasure, with no thought for anything, in the triumph of her beauty, in the pride of her success. She felt as the same social level of the rich woman on that party. But something happened, she lost the necklace of diamonds.
In the middle of the distress, her husband sacrificed everything and his future to help her. He did borrows, mortgage, gave notes of hand, entered into ruinous agreements, did business with usurers and the whole tribe of money-lenders. But he found the way to buy a replacement of the necklace with diamonds.
The woman and her husband were 10 years working hard to paying all debts. When finally, she saw her friend and told her the true. But her friend was surprised and deeply moved. Her friend confessed with admiration that her necklace was imitation with low value!

7. The Necklace
Climax:
As soon as Madame Loisel realized that she didn't had the necklace of diamonds, she was scared and distress and tried to find it, without success. The couple searched in the folds of her dress, in the folds of the coat, in the pockets, everywhere. Her husband go over all the ground they walked, went to the police station, to the newspapers, to the cab companies, and offered a reward. She was waiting in the fear of this catastrophe, but finally, they could not find it.
By the end of a week they had lost all hope, they decided replace the necklace of diamonds. With no money, they had to find they way to collect thirty-six thousand francs.

8. The Necklace Conflict: Character vs Self
A woman’s struggle, wanting what she can’t have, and what she goes through after she tries to be something she’s not.

9. The Necklace
Theme:
This story is about values. Teach us to be happy with who you are or what do you have, instead desiring what you have not. Trying to pretending, could have a hard and painful cost.

10. The Necklace Point of View:
This story is told in 3rd person omniscient.

11. The Necklace References:
The Necklace. (n.d.). Retrieved from
Literary elements. (n.d.). Retrieved from

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The Necklace
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