The Value of Possessions Examined in Guy de Maupassants The Necklace E

The Value of Possessions Examined in goof de Maupassants Short Story, The Necklace The upstart Irish poet Oscar Wilde once stated, In the world there are only if two tragedies. One is not acquiring what one wants, and the other is getting it (qtd. in The Quotations Page). This quote accurately describes hu humans nature to the extent that man is never fully satisfied with his current possessions. In fact, most mountain who rely on bourgeois items for happiness are typically desolated and miserable. Guy de Maupassant enlivens these assertions in his short story, The Necklace. Maupassant reveals his ingenious style through a word-painting of a battle with morality, in which the central character, Mathilde Loisel, struggles with excessive wants that ultimately day of reckoning her to perpetual despair. In the beginning of The Necklace, the reader female genitals clearly strike off Madame Loisels immense need for luxurious items. Maupassant describes Madame Loisel as somewh at miserable imputable to her ordinary standard of living She was simple since she could not be modify but she was unhappy as though kept out of her give birth class...She suffered intensely, feeling herself born for every delicacy and every luxury (Par. 3). Madame Loisel complains virtually her husband and his common profession, feeling as though she should be married by a man rich and distinguished (Par. 1). She knows that her husband can not provide the luxuries which she so desperately desires. These lingering feelings cause Madame Loisel to undervalue the nonmaterial importance of animateness. All the while, the reader must consider the profound aspect of Madame Loisels misleading view about her social class. Although Madame Loisel feels unfit and tortured to be of her econom... ...han before, she and her husband own nothing at all. At this stay of the story, the reader assumes that Madame Loisel has suffered intensely enough to understand the underlying value o f materialistic items. Unfortunately, Madame Loisel does not take the suffering as a learning experience. eventide still, she continues to daydream of owning luxury items, accepting admiration from the higher class, and living the life of a dream. Consequently, Madame Loisel will also continue to live in stroke due to her endless dissatisfaction. Perhaps, one may assert that Madame Loisel is the type of someone that will never quite be satisfied enough, no field of study how much or how little she may have. Works CitedWilde, Oscar. Coles Quotables. 2004. The Quotations Page. Ed. M. Shawn Cole and Michael Moncur. 05 environ 2006. de Maupaussant, Guy. The Necklace.