Phoemela Basera
11 - CSS C
A fictitious short
tale in the Realism
subgenre is titled
The Necklace.
The subgenres of irony
and morality tale both
have surprising endings
and provide the reader
valuable lessons.
Mathilde loses her
friend's jewellery
when she borrows it.
The Loisels must borrow
funds to buy a new
necklace.
Mathilde wants more
out of life and is not
content with it.
The jewelry was a fake, and
Mathilde discovers that she
had to work for ten of her
most formative years in order
to pay off the debt she had
accrued as a result of losing
the necklace.
Diamond Necklace The author uses a
restricted omniscient
by Guy de Maupassant third-person narrator
in this work.
Classification/
Excemplificati Although Mathilde is
Narration undoubtedly the subject of
on
the story, the narrator doesn't
speak from her perspective.
Instead, he describes
Mathilde as though he were
an outsider.
The writing style of Guy
de Maupassant in "The
Patterns in Necklace" is realism or
naturalism.
Cause and
Development Description
Effect The tale centers on a young
in Writing woman who leads a
middle-class existence in
late 19th-century Paris while
simultaneously yearning for
wealth and prominence.
The necklace symbolizes
the life that Madame
Mathilde Loisel yearns
for but cannot have,
especially now that she
Definition
Problem - has to repay the loans for
losing the original
Solution necklace.
Her life ultimately
ends because of her
lust for that
existence.