How does Maupassant represent the female character in "The Necklace?"
"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant portrays the female character in a number of different ways. This is a short story about a woman, and because of her vanity, ruins her life at the end. The author gets this idea across by using a variety of symbols and language techniques.
In the story "The Necklace," the author's aim appears to be showing us that greed and jealousy will eventually lead to destruction. In this story, the protagonist is Mathilde Loisel, who is a woman who always daydreams of a life she knows she would never have. Because of this, she is never satisfied with what she already has, forever reminding herself that she was born into the wrong life and that fate had made a mistake. Even though her life is miserable, the narrator's unsympathetic feelings towards Mathilde are made evident when he states:
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Who have had the ill-fortune to be born into a wage earning family
she led herself drift......
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