Mathilde Loisel wants to be a glamour girl. She’s obsessed with fancy, beautiful, expensive things, and the life that accompanies them. Unfortunately for her, she wasn’t born into a family with the money to make her dream possible.
Q. What does Madame Loisel desire?
Madame Loisel wants to lead a life of ease, comfort, and social respectability. She believes herself entitled to better things on account of what she thinks is noble ancestry. Because of this, she’s profoundly dissatisfied with her present life.
Q. What does Madame Loisel value in life?
Madame Loisel values a lavish, rich life while her husband values a simple easy life. Madame Loisel is not satisfied with her life while her husband is satisfied with whatever they have. Both Madame Loisel and her husband are trustworthy, respecting, dedicated to each other and hardworking.
Q. What is ironic about the Loisels poverty?
1)The Loisels are impoverished by someone. they considered a friend. 2)It is Madame Loisel who lost the necklace, and her husband who is paying for all of it.
Q. Is having a beautiful dress a symbol of wealth to Madame Loisel?
She was ashamed to have her husband put it on her with the beautiful dress and necklace she was wearing. The fact that it’s fake, just makes it that much more symbolic of the greed and sacrifice that consumes Madam Loisel and her husband.
Q. What is the moral lesson of the story the necklace?
The moral lesson of the story, “the necklace” is that we shouldn’t live a materialistic life as it can make our life’s filled with sorrow and grief.
Q. What is the climax in the story the necklace?
In “The Necklace,” the climax occurs when the Madame Loisel realizes that the necklace, she borrowed from a friend is truly lost.
Q. What is ironic about the ending of the story the necklace?
In “The Necklace,” the surprise ending unhinges the previously implied premise of the story. Perhaps the most bitter irony of “The Necklace” is that the arduous life that Mathilde must assume after losing the necklace makes her old life—the one she resented so fully—seem luxurious.
Q. Does Madame Loisel show heroism in paying off her debt?
Answer: During her time of deprivation, Madame Loisel plays her part “with sudden heroism” to pay the “dreadful debt,” after she lost the necklace.
Q. What is the conclusion of the necklace?
The conclusion of “The Necklace” reveals the truth of the necklace to Mathilde Loisel. She and her husband have spent the last ten years sacrificing all comforts in order to repay the debt they incurred from replacing the necklace which Mathilde had lost.
Q. How did Mathilde’s life change after losing and replacing the necklace?
How did Mathilde’s life change after she lost the necklace? She became very poor and took on menial jobs to pay back their debts. She would not have had to take out loans to buy a new necklace nor would she have had to work menial jobs to repay those loans.
Q. What changes occurred in Mme Loisel after 10 years?
Over the ten years, Madame Loisel realized what it meant to be truly poor. Her mindset regarding poverty and what it meant to work changed. She, too, was required to work. In the end, Madame Loisel did not only change mentally, she also changed physically (from the demanding work she had to do).
Q. What changes had Matilda undergone after she and her husband had repaid the entire loan?
After the repayment of the loan by Matilda and her husband Mr. Loisel. Matilda had become strong hard woman, the cruel woman of the poor household. Her hair badly dressed, her skirts awry, Her hands read and she now spoke in a loud tone.
Q. Why is Madame Loisel unhappy with her life at the beginning of the story?
1) At the beginning of the story, why is Madame Loisel unhappy with her life? Because she is a middle class woman and has no family rank.
Q. Did Mme Loisel have a reason to be unhappy?
Answer: Madame Loisel is unhappy because she is ashamed of her social standing. Madam Loisel has always dreamed of a luxurious life with servants and such, and is unhappy because she is not wealthy. She becomes even more upset when she is invited to a ball.
Q. Is Madame Loisel rich?
Hover for more information. Madame Loisel marries a clerk because she is not from a wealthy family and therefore cannot marry a wealthy man.
Q. Why did Loisel save 400 francs?
Why had M. Loisel been saving 400 francs? He wanted to buy himself a hunting rifle.
Q. Why was Mr Loisel saving money?
He wants her to be happy. He spends a huge savings that he had saved for years to buy a gun for his hobby for buying a pretty dress for his wife so that she could attend a big party and enjoy it. When the costly necklace is lost, he spends all his savings and even borrow to repay it.
Q. Why was Mathilde unhappy with her life?
Matilda was always unhappy in her early married life because she was born in a family of clerks which seemed to be an error of destiny. She had high aspirations. She felt grieved at her miserable condition. She thought that she was born for all delicacies and luxuries of the world.
Q. How did Monsieur Loisel solve Matilda’s problem of the dress?
Mme Loisel’s husband solved this problem. He told his wife to request her friend, Mme Forestier, to lend her some jewels. When she went to Mme Forestier, the latter brought a jewel case for Mme Loisel so that she could choose whichever jewels she liked. What do M.
Q. What did the Loisels do to pay their frightful debt?
Answer: In the Guy de Maupassant short story “The Necklace,” Madame Loisel borrows an apparently expensive necklace from her friend Madame Forestier, and then loses it at the party that she attends. The Loisels immediately make arrangements to replace the necklace, borrowing 36,000 francs to buy a new one.
Q. Why could Mrs Forestier not recognize her friend Matilda at the end of the story?
Explanation: On the day, when Madam Forestier met Mrs Loisel, she couldn’t recognise her because she had changed so badly. Mrs Loisel told the whole story and also the fact that her necklace was responsible for their miserable condition.
Q. What kind of person is Mme Loisel and why is she always unhappy?
loisel is a dreamy woman. She gives much value to her dreams. She over-looks the realities of life. That is why, she is always unhappy because dreams can’t be true .
Q. What kind of woman is Mme Loisel?
Answer: Mme Loisel is a pretty girl. She is born in a poor family. Her husband is a small clerk. But she thinks she is born to enjoy all the luxuries of life.
Q. What kind of woman was Madame Loisel?
What kind of a person is Mme Loisel and why is she always unhappy? Answer: Mme Loisel is young, pretty, ordinary but discontented woman. She is of a humble background but dreams of riches and comforts. She is proud of her beauty and wants to be admired.
Q. What kind of person is Loisel?
innocent
Q. What kind of husband was Loisel?
What kind of husband was Loisel? Answer: Loisel is a caring and loving husband. He is a simple man.
Q. Why do they replace the necklace?
It made them poor and snatched all their hopes of a happy life. It took away ten prime years of their lives. Matilda could have avoided the miserable life that she and her husband had to resort by confessing to Mme Forestier that she had lost the necklace. The course of the Loisels’ life changed due to the necklace.
Q. What kind of person is a husband?
He is an ordinary man who just like others is caring and wants his wife to be happy.
Q. What kind of person is Matilda’s husband?
Matilda’s husband is quite genuine and a supportive kind of person… He immediately gives money for his wife when ever she ask for her clothing This shows that he has very much care and concern about his family and wife!..
