The Diamond Necklace paper

INTRODUCTION

Background

         

            The short story which we analyze in this occasion is “the diamond necklace”. It is written by Guy De Maupassant. He is French, this story tells about French people with their reality problem may be occur. It is kind of modern literary works. We can know it from the language using. It was written in the 19^th century.

            This one tells about a young couple lived in a poor condition. Matilda Loisel was a simple woman, she never adorn he self. She had no dowry, no hopes. She had married with George, a petty clerk in the office of the board of education.

            She had a rich friend, her schoolmate at the convent whom she didn’t like to visit; she suffered so much when she returned, and she wept for whole days from chagrin, from regret, from despair and disappointment. Although her live was in poor condition, it could be conducted till a happening occurred changing her life. Make it more suffer than now. One day her husband gave her envelope containing surprising news for Matilda. Her husband has selected getting an opportunity joining the ball hold in George’s office. He thought that Matilda will be happy about it because it was the opportunity she waited for. But she gave an unexpected response, Matilda was sad, because she had now everything needed to go to the ball. She didn’t have nice dress and accessories to wear. She began to cry she wanted to refuse that ball invitation, but George’s tried to ensure her to be confident whatever she wore. Matilda keep not being confident to meet other people wore beautiful party dress in the ball.

            George’s gave her 400 French to buy party dress, she was very happy, but she needed jewelry to make her performance better. George’s suggested her to borrow accessories from her rich friend, Madame Forestier. Matilda borrowed a beautiful diamond necklace from her friend. It was in a black satin box.

            The day of the ball arrived. Madam Loisel was a great success, she looked very pretty, elegant, with gracious, smile and full of joy. All the members of the cabinet gave attention to her. She danced with enthusiasm. She was very proud of her self, with all she wore at the time.

The ball was end, she realized that the diamond necklace was disappeared from her neck. It was lost. Matilda and George’s looked for it everywhere but is wasn’t found. Finally they decided to replaced it with the another diamond necklace exactly like the one that lost that price is 40.000 franc. They could get it for 36.000 French. After replacing those necklaces, their life was poorer than before with more much suffers.

            One day, Madam Loisel was taking walk; she met madam Forestier on the street. She was very surprised with the condition of Matilda, she looked old now. Matilda told that actually she had lost her necklace then returned it with another like Madam foreister’s. Her friend was very surprised because that hers were false and not worth. It was just not more than 500 francs.

Teory

Theme is the meaning of the story whether it is in the whole or half in the story.

 Theme is not a topic, a subject, moral and the hidden meanings.

Analyze theme of the diamond necklace

Theme:

A desire of a wife  to be a rich man that make her fall into big responsibility which require her and her husband spend all of the time of her life to solve the problem they caused.

The reason:

1.                  Suitable with story because when reader read this theme,the reader know the meaning of this story without reading all of this story.

2.                  Suitable with plot because the problem of this story beginning with the dream’s of wife to be a richman and the last, her family get poorer.and more suffer than before.

3.                  The theme reinforces the values that use in the story, so in this story the theme suitable with the plot of diamond necklace.

1.                The title is not informative; it means that the diamond necklace is main object of the story. The meaning does not change because the diamond necklace triggers the conflict and it appears from the first till the last story. The title does not help us to formulate a theme because the title is too general. If I am as the author, I will use “” become the title of this story.

2.                “instead of being delighted, as her husband had hoped, she threw the invitation spitefully upon the table murmuring : ‘what do you suppose I want with that?’

‘ but my dearie, I though it would make you happy. You never go out, and this is an occasion, and a fine one! I had a great deal of trouble to get it. Everybody wishes one, and it is very select; not many are given to employees. You will see the whole official world there.’

  She looked at him with an irritated  eye and declared impatiently:

  ‘ what do you suppose I have to wear to such a thing as that?

  He had not trough of that; he stammered:

‘why, the dress you wear when we go to the theatre. It seems very pretty to me—‘

He was silent, stupefied, in dismay, at the sight of his wife weeping. Two great tears fell slowly from the corner of his eyes toward the corner of his mouth; he stammered:

‘What is the matter? What is the matter?’

By a violent effort, she had controlled her vexation and responded in a calm voice, weeping her moist cheeks:

‘Nothing, only I have no dress and consequently I cannot go to this affair. Give your card to some colleague whose wife is better fitted out than I.’

He was greaved, but aswered :

Let us see,how much would a suitable costum cost, something that would serve for other occasion, something very simple?’

She reflected for some second, making estimates and thinking of a sum that she could ask for without bringing from the economical clerk.

Finally she said, in a hesitating voice:

I can not tell exactly, but it seems to me that four hundred french ought to cover it .’

He turned a little pale for he had saved just this sum to buy a gun that he might be able to join some hunting parties the next summer, on the plains of nanterre, with some friend who went to shoot larks up there on Sunday. Nevertheless, he answered:

‘very well, i will give you  four hundred francs. But try to have a pretty dress.

3.               The meaning of the story embodied in the whole story because it represents all of events in that story.

Conclusion

The theme of this short story is “A desire of a wife to be rich men that make her fall into big responsibility which require her and her husband spend all of the time of her life to solve the problem they caused.” Because it suitable with story because when reader read this theme, the reader know the meaning of this story without reading all of this story.

It suitable with plot because the problem of this story beginning with the dream’s of wife to be a richman and the last, her family get poorer.and more suffer than before.