Guy de Maupassant as a story writer and the text analysis, literary devices, along with the main lines explanation of "The Necklace:.

1. Short Fiction Assignment
Murk Razzaque

2. Guy de Maupassant as Short Story writer:
Guy de Maupassant is regarded as the best
French writer of short stories. His 300 stories were
written in the naturalist style and often described the life
of the lower and middle classes. Almost all of his stories
had a deep life lesson to be learned. (“Ball of Fat”) is
regarded as his best story, while the best known is (“The
Necklace”).
 Writingstyle of Mauspassant;
Maupassant'swriting style showed a traditionalwriting
style of the French realism at that period of time He
always portrayed his characters as unhappyvictims of
their mistakes or insecurities like greed, desire, or
vanity. Guy de Maupassant uses irony many times in
his writing of short stories. He is best known for the twist

3. ending (Ironic ending), in his short stories which was a
hallmark of de Maupassant'sstyle.
Text Analysis:
The style of the short story analysis is the narrative
techniquein the short story "The Necklace"is a third
person omniscient point of view or perspective.
 Literary Elements:
Symbols: “The Necklace”
The necklace symbolizes the wealth and status that
Mathilde longs for but cannot attain.
“The coat”that her husband gives her at the end of
the party symbolizes their current life, which

4. Mathildehates, and the mediocre social status she
wants to escape from.
Imagery: Before getting an invitation to a fancy
party, Madame Loisel imagines the lives of the rich
in great detail.
 Irony: “The Riseand Fall of Loisel”(Situational
Irony)
M. Loisel is dissatisfied with her place in society, at
the beginning of “The Necklace”. In her efforts to
pretend to be higher class by borrowinga beautiful
necklace, she and her husband end up even lower in
society.
Explain with Reference to Context.

5. 1.“No… there’s nothing so humiliating as looking
poor in the middle of a lot of rich women.”
Reference: These lines are taken from the short story
“The Necklace”which was written by Guy de
Maupassant. Maupassant was a famous French short story
writer of his time. He was well known for his twist
ending. He is most famous for his short story “The
Necklace” which is in third person omniscient point of
view or perspective.
Context: These lines were said by the character of the
Mathilde, the wife of Monsieur. These lines were said
when Mathilde’s husband suggested that she should wear
flowers to the party instead of jewelry.
Explanation: In these lines we see the insecurityof
Mathilda, regarding her class. And the lack of confidence
within herself. When her husband suggests her that she
should wear flowers instead of a jewelry to the party since
she did not have any jewels. But she refuses and says that
she doesn’t want to look poorin the crowed of wealthy
peoplewith no precious objects to herself.

6.  Murk Razzaque
 Short Fiction
 “The Necklace”