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A 2 page essay of the classic short story, The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant on how Loisel comes to know many things in the process of losing a friend's necklace and paying for it. No additional sources cited.
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of getting known, understood, loved, and wedded by a man of wealth and distinction" ( Maupassant) She is married off to a simple clerk but feels she is too good
for him. She comes to know resentment because she really resents her husbands poverty stricken life. Even though she has never had anything--she wants everything. This girl has natural charm
and elegance and vanity as well. It is her vanity that makes her "come to know" real poverty. Loisel comes to know envy, because
she had a rich friend from when she went to school. She doesnt like to visit her because it makes her so jealous. She wants all the things that her
friend has. Loisel thinks that she deserves these things just because she is born. She is not happy with her life, her husband or the "poorness of her house, ...
its mean walls, worn chairs, and ugly curtains"(Maupassant). Loisel thinks she has a really hard life but she does not even clean. She has a servant girl come.
She lives in a fantasy world. She sits around all day thinking about all the things that she doesnt have. " delicate meals, gleaming silver,
tapestries peopling the walls with folk of a past age and strange birds in faery forests" (Maupassant). She is very unhappy and cries all the time. All she wants is
to be beautiful and have beautiful things. Her husband is a poor man. He is a simple clerk at the Ministry of Education but he
somehow gets himself invited to a great ball. He goes to all this trouble for his wife to make her happy. But the invitation to the ball only makes Loisel
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