The Necklace (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- First Published: 1884
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: About 1884
- Setting: Paris
- Principal Characters: Madame Mathilde Loisel, Monsieur Loisel, Madame Jeanne Forestier
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Middle classes, Poverty or poor people, Loneliness, Materialism, Pretensions, Debtors or creditors
- Locales: Paris, France
The Story
Mathilde Loisel is attractive and pretty, but unhappy, very unhappy. She believes that life has played her false. She feels relegated to a lower station than she deserves. She wanted to be appreciated and loved by some rich gentleman from a good family, but instead, having no dowry, she had to settle for a junior clerk in the Ministry of Public Instruction. Her existence is one of constant frustration. She hates her plain apartment, its absence of pictures on the walls, its shoddy furniture. Even the sight of her maid, doing housework, fills her with hopeless regrets...
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See Also:
Guy de Maupassant (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Guy de Maupassant (Short Fiction)Guy de Maupassant (Censorship)Guy de Maupassant (Dictionary of World Biography)Guy de Maupassant (Mystery and Detective Fiction)Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
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