“Will you buy my hair?” In the story “The Gift of Magi” two loved ones are in a scramble to find money to buy their loved ones a gift, they each sell their most valuable possession to gain money. The author creates the theme that when two people are in love people will give up anything for their loved ones.…
The most important literary term that is used most often out of all of the stories is situational irony. Situational irony is when the opposite of what one expects to happen occurs. The situational irony was all about Madame Forestier’s necklace that Madame Loisel lost. At the end of the story, Madame Loisel, who despised hard work and everything in the world that is not glamorous, finds out that she had given up her life to replace her friends necklace that she eventually discovers is only a fake. When Madame Loisel decided to tell Madame Forestier about how she lost her necklace, the reader expected Madame Forestier to be upset. But, instead, we all found out that Madame Forestier’s original necklace was only a fake and was worth hardly anything…
In “The Necklace”, Mathilde is seen as a poor woman who had low self-esteem and was married to a clerk. In this story, she was invited to a ball and borrowed a friend’s necklace. After the ball, Mathilde discovers that the necklace was lost. As a result, she had to search for a similar necklace and had to take out loans to make a purchase. She was forced to work for ten years to pay off the debt until one day when she saw her friend. Little did Mathilde know that the necklace she lost was worth much less than the new necklace she paid for.…
In (‘ The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’), you are given some insight to his imagination of events throughout his day of errands that his wife is having him do while she is getting her hair done at the salon. In The Necklace’, you are given some insight into Madame Loise’s unhappy and depressing life that she lives and when she is given the opportunity to go to this high end event we get to see her at the ball in her dream, In the dream she is admired as much as the necklace she borrowed from a close friend for the ball. Her desire to be part of a high society in which she does not belong. The dream is captivity but destructive.…
The stories of “The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant and “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” by Flannery O’Connor are different from one another at first glance, however when analyzing deeper into the context, there are obvious similarities that can be recognized. The main characters from both of these stories are identified as Mathilde from “The Necklace” and the grandmother from “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” with both of these characters being comparable on the aspects of their character flaw, encountering of tragedy, and undergoing of character change.…
She ends up borrowing a necklace from her friend and loses it. Madame Loisel and her husband then spent most of their lives on a journey to pay the necklace off. Madame Loisel constantly complained about everything and was never satisfied. “The Necklace” is one story that follows the steps of the Hero’s Journey. The archetypes of the Hero’s…
The Gift of the Magi shows many ironic aspects. How Della adores her hair, thinking so highly that no queen jewels could ever match the beauty of her hair. Or how Jim thinks his watch is so priceless that no king could ever have such a jewel, but when wanting to show their affection to one another they sell their priceless jewels just to find out that they each sold their priceless jewels to get something for one another. One a comb for the now missing hair, the other a golden chain for the now sold watch.…
The plots of these two stories differ from each other, but are still both ironic. In “The Necklace” Mathildes husband got her an invitation to a high class party, and she got upset and made a big deal about it because she didn’t have a new dress. She also wanted a necklace to go with that dress. So her husband bought her a new dress, and she ended up borrowing a necklace from her friend who is high class. She ends up losing the necklace and having to pay 10 years of debt due to that, she saw her friend 10 years later and found out the necklace was a fake. In “The Gift of The Magi” They both love each other and wanted to get Christmas presents for each other. So Della cut her hair off so she could by Jim a chain for his antique pocket. Jim sold his pocket watch to buy Della a set of combs for her hair. So that’s why it makes the story’s ending Ironic.…
In “The Necklace” Madame Loisel lost a necklace of her friends and bought another that looked just like it and gave to her friend that she borrowed it from Madame Forestier. Because Madame Loisel lied she was afraid that Madame Forestier would see that the necklace was not the same. It took her ten years to pay off the debt that she created and right after she had finished paying the debt it is ironic that she ran into Madame Forestier. Later Madame Loisel finds out that the jewels on the necklace were false and didn’t cost more than a thousand francs. If she had told her the truth she would not have wasted ten years of her life living in fear that Madame Forestier would figure that it is not the same necklace.…
The two short stories “A Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe and “The Gift of the Magi” by O’ Henry were two short stories that showed the writing skills of their authors. O’ Henry and Poe were two writers from different time periods, but use the same literary techniques in their works. Irony is defined as “a contradiction between expectation and reality” and suspense as “the growing interest and excitement felt while awaiting a climax or resolution.” O’ Henry and Poe used either suspense, irony, or both to make their stories more intense for the readers.…
In “The Gift on the Magi” William Sydney Porter uses figurative language such as symbolism. On page 139, Porter shows the readers that the characters had very little money. The woman had to cut her long beautiful hair off to buy a Christmas present for her husband. The hair is symbolizing her love for her husband. She was upset about cutting her hair but she wanted to make her husband happy. Her husband had to give away his pocket watch.…
There are lots of components in a good story, plot, theme, characters, structure and so many more. A lot of stories are better than others because of the components of good irony, relate-able characters, and a good structure.…
In “The Necklace,” irony occurs throughout the story. For example, irony occurs when destitute Mathilde Loisel solicits her friend Mme. Forestier and asks for the lush diamond necklace to wear the the extravagant ball . However, not knowing the repercussions ahead of her, she still took the lush diamond and wore it to the regal ball. For example, the narrator writes, " She removed the raps, which covered her shoulders, before the glass, so as once more to see herself all in glory.…
Guy de Maupassant, born into nobility, wrote “The Necklace,” along with many other literary works, some inspired by his nobility. “The Necklace” is rittled with themes of wealth, and status, all issues Maupassant would have dealt with. The main character, Mathilde deals with these issues as well. When Mathilde deals with these themes her character is revealed, some good, but mostly bad. In “The Necklace” Maupassant represents Mathilde’s character by revealing her greediness, her lies, and her love.…
After the party, Madame Loisel loses the necklace, resulting in tireless work, loans, and night jobs for her and her husband in order to pay back the equivalent of the price. The couple finally succeeds when all the money is paid ten years later, only for Mathilde to discover that the necklace was ironically a fake, and worth a very small percentage of what the couple paid. The theme of this story is that an overemphasis on material wealth can shrink the spirit and leave one open to the changeability of fortune. The situational irony highlights this moral because the Loisels would never have had to exhaust themselves if Madame Loisel wasn’t so obsessed with riches and wealth. From the very beginning of the story, she wastes her time dreaming of luxuries such as fine silks, beautiful furniture, and gourmet feasts. Even when she is at Madam Forestier’s house to try on necklaces to borrow, she is never satisfied until she has seen the very best. Madame Loisel’s preoccupation with appearance clouds her judgment as well. As soon as she realizes that she has lost the necklace, she should simply come clean to Madam Forestier. Instead, she is too concerned with how her reputation will be affected, so she keeps quiet. She later pays the price for this when she discovers that the necklace is “false [and]…worth five hundred francs at most.” The life that she gets instead as punishment during the ten years in debt is even more difficult and meager than her life to begin with, which stresses how fame and fortune is so fleeting and unimportant in the scheme of…