Curse of the Necklace

Empowering images of wealth, power and beauty blur the reality of life. “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, portrays a woman’s desire and envy to belong among the high society as well as feed on attention through her grace and charming good looks. Through a twist of fate and irony, Mathilde Loisel learns that beauty is skin deep and not based on materialism.
The irony is set in motion with Mathilde's constant daydreaming. Mathilde is a beautiful and attractive woman who feels "destined for all delicacies and luxuries"(Maupassant 5). Fate, however, placed her among the simple middle-class life. For her, the only means to an upper-class was through her imagination. She daydreams of "large silent anterooms, expensive silks and of achievement and fame that would make her the envy of all other women"(Maupassant 5). What she falls short to is that these daydreams only make her more frustrated with her real life. As a result, Mathilde bec...