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Expert answer:I have to read story “The Necklace”and Answer 7 review questions:I already have my friends answers, three answers for each question.I need you to do Paraphrasing so my teacher will not know I’m using my friends answer we are in the same class. One answer for each questionNo copy or past.I need 200 words for each questionNo refences needed
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1. What is Mme. Loisel’s “station” in life? Why is this important? What does Mme. Loisel want?
Why is that important?
a) She was born very beautiful and believes that she is in a lower than she’s supposed to
be in and deserves all of the finer things in life. Her only desire is to live an extravagant
life style to be spoiled by all the finer things in life and to be desired by many. Prior to
the events of the story she lived a modest life, but wasn’t poor. Born to a family of
clerks means that most of her family work in banks, do office work, and things that are
generally considered white collar jobs today the story even mentions that she has a
maid working for her. Yet despite all of this she can’t even be satisfied or content with
what she has. Because of this and the fact her husband works so hard to please her it
allows for the story to unfold the way it does.
b) Mme. Loisel’s station in life is a married woman that belongs in middle working class.
It is important because she doesn’t desire to be in working class. She wanted to be in
the upper class. What she wants is important because she isn’t able to peruse her wants.
The reason she isn’t able to achieve this is because she is unable to. In the society she
lives in, a French society, she is unable to move up in class. The reason she is not able
to move up is on how the French society you cannot choose which class you are going
to be in. A second reason between what Mme. Loisel’s classes is and what she wants it
to be is important is how the French look at working class. Working class people are
looked down on in this time period. For someone like Mme. Loisel wanting to be and
acting like the upper class can cause problems on how upper class French people treat
them.
c) Mme. Loisel’s station in life is a middle class housewife. This is important because
we see that she is unhappy with her current station, that she desires a higher station and
thinks she deserves to be in or should have been born into a higher station, which
ultimately leads to her downfall and her actions lead to her husband’s downfall as
well. In this country you are allowed to raise your station, if you work hard or invent
something that earns you lots of money or posses a skill that can lead to making lots of
money, such as sports or acting. Some people, however do things like sell illegal drugs
or steal to obtain the money that raises their station. While Mme. Loisel’s actions were
not illegal, they were certainly looked down at, if caught, so that really makes her action
not acceptable in that time, making her like an adulterer. Adultery, in most countries,
is not illegal, but is definitely looked down at, and if caught could cost the person who
committed the act a lot of trouble, as well as the people in their family having to deal
with the consequences.
2. Which of these seven vices does Mme. Loisel display? (lust, envy, sloth, pride, greed, gluttony,
anger) Is Mme. Loisel being punished for any of these vices? Why?
a) That’s exactly how I thought about it Alexander. The story mentions that she has maid.
I tell you what, I don’t have a maid so they must have been doing pretty good.
Unfortunately there are people that have a hard time seeing what they do have in front
of them but don’t appreciate it and always wants more thinking that will make them
happy. Because of her selfishness not only did she have a hard next ten years of life but
her husband had to be a part of it because of her. So as anyone can see that being this
type of person not only affects oneself but others around them and usually hurts the
ones closest to them as well. That is one lesson she learned the hard way.
b) I feel like in the short story “The Necklace” Mme. Loisel shows s few if the seven vices.
The first one that I saw her display was envy, she was very jealous of the higher class
families and especially the women. I felt like we got a good image of this when it is
mentioned that she stopped visiting her friend who was higher class than her and that
it made her very upset for days after a visit. I also saw that she displayed some of the
vice pride. She was all about making sure she looked to be higher class and fit in or
look the part when going to the ball. She showed greed also when she didn’t seem to
care about how much it was going to cost to get a dress and also seemed picky about
the jewels she borrowed. I felt like though out the first part of the story leading up to
the ball she was never happy with what she had.
c) Mme. Loisel displays each of the seven vices, numerous different times, throughout the
entire story. Most easily recognized, however, is Mme. Loisel’s envy and lust. She sees
the other women, dressed beautifully and covered in jewels, and feels as though she is
supposed to be one of them. Unfortunately though, she was born to a family of clerks
and has never had much money for things like that. This is why lust is also so easy to
observe, as she wishes and dreams of silk furnished living rooms, perfume, and fine
dinners that are just out of her reach. She displays anger when a situation arises that
causes her to confront her insecurities about her social standing and she reacts very
rudely to her husband’s kind gestures. She become greedy when her husband offers her
money to purchase a new ball gown, and makes sure to ask for enough so that she can
buy a gown more beautiful than all the others. Her vanity becomes clear when she
strongly disapproves of her husband’s suggestion to wearing flowers instead of jewels,
as she doesn’t want to appear cheap. As her friend allows her to try on jewelry, Mme.
Loisel displays gluttony as she continues piling on piece after piece, not wanting to
give up any of them. Finally, after the necklace is lost, a depression takes over Mme.
Loisel and she displays the sloth vice while she sits in distress for days after the fact.
3. How does Mme. Loisel adapt to working life? Has she learned anything?
a) Mme. Loisel did sacrifice her beauty over those 10 long years, especially when her
friend didn’t even recognize her. She could have avoided the grueling 10 years by
telling the truth but what would she get out of it in the long run? She is still in the
middle class but her conscious is clear and that seems to mean more to her than being
rich. It is almost like a Cinderella story without the happy ending of the poverty that
Mme. Loisel endures. You made great points and addressed the issues with specific
detail. I would have liked the story to continue as well to see the outcome of Mme.
Loisel’s reaction to the truth about the necklace.
b) Mme. Loisel seems to adapt to working life quickly but grudgingly. In the story, it is
easy to see that she does the hard work and manual labor in her home because she feels
responsible for the debt owed towards the necklace they had to purchase. I say
grudgingly because the story tells us about her reflecting on the night that she held
everyone’s attention with her beauty. The story ends before we can see a reaction from
Mme. Loisel, which would have given more indication as to whether she had learned a
lesson. I do think she did though, she spent ten years of her life and sacrificed her
beauty for a debt that could have been avoided had she been honest in the first place.
c) I think she adapts well. She realizes the consequences quickly of her careless but fun
night. She understood the cost of what she had lost and not just in the amount of money
to repay for the jewelry but the cost of life that was now going to be spent on making
up that loss of money. It took them 10 years to pay off that one night and by the end of
it all, although hard and ruining, she makes the remarks that it also saved her. She now
knows the meaning of what they have and what to be grateful for. Its one of those
lessons that she learned the hard way but in the end is a better person in the eyes of
envy. I think she learned to be thankful for what she has and how hard they work for
what they have rather than always wanting what they do not have and how a single
material can save or ruin ones life.
4. What symbols of wealth and station could be used in a story like this if it were written today?
a) If this story were written today I think that a symbol of status could be something such
as a boat, a luxury vehicle, vacation properties, or even a diamond ring. Often we can
look at people in our community and guess what level of wealth or poverty they live
at. Things like brand name clothes and accessories, vehicle types or number of vehicles,
and the condition and neighborhood of their home. When I think of something of value
that I have borrowed from my friends that would be difficult for me to replace I can
only think of vehicles. In my life at least, I don’t feel the pressure to impress others
with my class level in society so that may be why nothing else comes to mind right
now.
b) If the story “The Necklace” was to be written today I think that there would be a few
differences in the symbols of wealth and station used. The type of home and furnishings
would still be a symbol but a little bit differently. The size of the home and the land
around it is something that matters to people now. Having the newest and most
expensive car, that includes the best upgrades and being able to buy name brand clothes
and shoes would be a huge symbol that would be used. Instead of there being a ball that
was a big event, today belonging to a country club could be used to show a person’s
station in life. I feel like the symbols used in the story would just be updated to current
trends and barely change because most people always long for what they don’t have or
feel like they should have.
c) I think that some of the symbols could be used now as they did then. Mme. Loisel
wanted a nice dress and jewelry to help show her status as higher than they were. People
today do the same thing as well. People buy very expensive brands of clothing, have
very fine jewelry, to help show wealth. I know that some of the higher brand items have
very nice things and not everyone buys it to show off their wealth because some things
are very nice and if you can afford it i suppose a few things are fine but she wanted
these things to show off and to make herself look like someone with a higher status
than she had. We also use big houses and fancy cars these days to show status even if
we can afford these luxurious items. It’s a little different if you can afford them without
going into massive amounts of debt but if you cant afford it then you shouldn’t try to
make it look like you can. These items are just materialistic things that aren’t a necessity
for life.
5. How does Mme. Loisel conduct herself at the ball? How is her conduct different than it “ought”
to be?
a) At the ball, Mme. Loisel embraces the attention given to her even though she is
masquerading. She convinced her husband to spend money they really couldn’t afford
to spend, so that she could enjoy one evening. While that alone was selfish, she still
wanted more and didn’t take care of what she thought was an expensive necklace.
Acting graciously and accompanying her husband rather than abandoning him at the
party, as well as humbling herself in the presence of the more established and rich
people may have been a more appropriate behavior. Beautiful though that her husband
never wavered in his love for her in the story, he did what needed to be done, first when
she wanted the dress and then again when she lost the necklace and they replaced it.
b) At the ball, Mme. Loisel acts as if she was of a higher economic status. With the fancy
ball dress and the jewelry on she felt so beautiful. Being at a party surrounded by rich
people made her feel beautiful inside as well. It made her feel successful. She was
pretending to be someone she wasn’t. She tried to fit in with the other ladies. When her
husband tried giving her the coat he had brought her, she felt embarrassed and didn’t
want to be seen by the other ladies with fir coats. She wanted to be seen as elegant and
she wanted to be admired. She pretended to be someone she wasn’t at the party. She
should have been humble. She didn’t have to try to fit in that hard. She could have still
been happy that she was there and danced and had fun. But she shouldn’t have been
embarrassed for the person she actually is.
c) Mme. Loisel conducts herself like a true upper classmen. Since this was a special gala,
the conduct would be very well mannered, sophisticated, and almost snooty. However
when Mme. Loisel is at home she is back in her element again of being poor and
competing to be upper class. During the ball, she felt as if she was the only one there
and acted like she was the center of attention, a princess. Mme. Loisel shows the skills
of being in the upper class but remains in the middle class for the rest of her life all
because she made one little mistake that could have been life changing.
6. How are Mme. Loisel and Mme. Forestier different?
a) Mme. Loisel and Mme. Forestier seem very, very different. First and foremost, they
differ in social class. The Loisel’s are common folk and live comfortably, but not
lavishly. The Forestier’s, on the other hand, seem to be people of some status and can
afford to surround themselves with nicer belongings. With this observation, I drew the
conclusion that Mme. Forestier is probably much less displeased with her life and might
not possess the same amount of vice’s that Mme. Loisel might. For instance, at the end
of the story, it is revealed that the necklace was a fake diamond. While Mme. Forestier
still valued the necklace, even though it was an imitation, I don’t believe that Mme.
Loisel would have behaved the same way. This is why, in my opinion, she didn’t even
consider looking for an imitation necklace to replace the missing one in the first place.
b) In the story, we are given little information about Mme. Forestier, but from the
information given, I believe we can see significant differences. Mme. Loisel longs for,
believes in, and will do most anything to live the life of the highest classes. Mme.
Loisel thinks of life in terms of vanity and will not even present herself at a party
without being the best dressed and accessorized. Mme. Loisel consumes herself with
the important people of the party and forgets about her husband. She even goes to the
extreme of spending more time in the cold simply to not been seen wearing a
commoner’s jacket. To the contrary, Mme. Forestier presents a façade of high class
while being modest in her spending. Mme. Forestier has no issue with wearing
imitation fashion items as well as allowing others to borrow her belongings. She also
had no issue telling Mme. Loisel the necklace was an imitation.
c) Mme. Loisel felt entitled to things that she did not have, she felt that these materials
would portray her beauty and wealth. She felt that she needed to have these materials
and without them she was worthless. Mme. Forestier was rich or so it seemed. The
story doesn’t tell us too much about how she acted but at one moment she seemed as if
she was also ungrateful for what she had when Mme. Loisel returned the necklace later
than expected. She was snooty and almost stuck up about how long it took to get back.
At the end of the story though it reveals that her necklace although nice was not a real
diamond therefor showing that she may have the nice material objects she was still
“cheap” and did not buy the real diamonds. Almost acting as if she was wealthy without
having to spend the dollar to be so. Again it doesn’t tell us too much about the person
she was but when it comes to materials it almost seems if both woman felt like the
materials were needed to portray who they were but Mme Loisel felt she needed them
because she did not have them and Mme Forestier did not care as much what she had
because she seemed to have it all.
7. Do we use anecdotes like “The Necklace” to point out moral lessons today? What other
examples of this can you think of?
a) I think the morals are be similar. One is about an object defining who you are and the
more about personal pride but between the two not being grateful for what they have
or are ended in consequences. I think we definitely use anecdotes and stories about
moral lessons today especially in a teacher/student settings or parent/child settings.
Being thankful, grateful are lessons that seem to be difficult in this day in age because
wealth and money is pushed to be such an important thing; “To be successful you must
be rich” a lot would say but it all comes down to what you define is successful. A small
saying that is commonly used is “The grass is always greener on the other side” and
although this quote can be helpful to some depending on when and how it is said it also
leaves a lacking being grateful for what they have.
b) Stories like the necklace are there to teach us about perceived value and selfishness.
We use stories like “The Necklace” in order to teach, share, or convey a message so that
people may learn something. Guy de Maupassant shares with us some morals and uses
“The Necklace” as his way to deliver those morals about not taking what you have for
granted, not using people, the dangers of being covetous, and the prices you may pay
for them. Mme. Loisel was by no means poor she comes from a family of what is
essentially white collar workers her husband was one too, she even had a maid. Because
all of these things, all of these nice things, weren’t the “best”, the “rich”, or the “finest”
she treated them as if they had no value and felt that she was poor and later became
poor because of it. Its stories like these we use to teach us to avoid the same fate or
becoming like Mme. Loisel.
c) I think we do use them to point out moral lessons, it’s part of our nature when growing
up. You have to learn on your own sometimes and struggle with it by dealing how your
going take care of it. There are a couple of examples I can think of. The first one is
jumping off a building to another one like you see in movies and end up breaking your
legs and having a good chance of not being able to walk again. The second one is when
someone misplaces soemthing of yours but you find it but don’t tell them that you did
so they would remember to keep a better eye on orher people things they borrow. The
last thing is when you want soemthing really bad and you use your credit card and you
spend quite the time paying off your debt
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