Loisel, is content with their life and wishes to make her happy despite everything he must endure. This conflict within Mathilde drives her throughout the story. “The Necklace” is a story about Mathilde, a miserable and selfish wife of a “little clerk” who suffers “from the poverty of her dwelling,” and dreams of a rich and elegant lifestyle where she is beautiful and “envied” (Maupassant, “Necklace”, 524). Mathilde’s dishonesty changes her life and forces her to know “the horrible existence of the needy” (Maupassant 528). Donald Adamson describes the main character, Mathilde, as a “poor but an honest woman,” I disagree with his opinion. It shows that things are not always what they seem, material things do not define the person and that money cannot solve all problems and may in fact create them.
I found that the theme of “The Necklace” exhibits the importance of honesty and being happy with who you are. Maupassant stated that the story is not only a form of entertainment but a tool “to make us think and to make us understand the deep and hidden meaning of events” (“Writer’s” 896). The meaning of “The Necklace” is developed through the depiction of the characters and the plot of the story. The story focuses on “everyday events, lives, relationships of middle/lower class,” and it provides a glimpse of normal people and how they are influenced by “social and economic forces” (Agatucci 4). “The Necklace” was written in the 19th century Literary Realism period. He wrote “realistic fiction” and greatly influences writers still (Charters, “Brief History” 998). Maupassant succeeded in being a writer “who had entered into himself and looked out upon life through his own being and with his own eyes,” according to Kate Chopin (861). Flaubert’s teaching principles suggested that the “writer must look at everything to find some aspect of it that no one has yet seen or expressed,” thus providing the reader a new or different view of life (Charters, “Maupassant” header 523). One of Guy De Maupassant’s literary influences was Gustave Flaubert, who taught him to write.
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