Essays on Loisel

In any written, it is undeniably important to have characters and develop them all through the story. Character development is defined as the transformation that a person goes through in the progression of a narrative as a consequence of the encounter that the person comes across. It offers the reader awareness to the most significant denotations or teachings of the story. This paper looks at Guy De Maupassant’s work “The Necklace". It highlights the clear development of the chief character Mathilde and the changes in her attitude concerning life throughout the piece. Characters evolve throughout a story. The ...

In both these stories human greed is placed firmly at the center of the story. Both Maupassant and Walker make use of irony, but the effects on the reader of each story is different, because the setting s are very different, but also because the narrative viewpoint in each story creates a very different effect on the reader. This essay will explore greed and irony, but it will also examine the narrative viewpoint because that alters the reader’s attitude to the representation of greed: Maupassant uses a third person omniscient narrator, but Walker chooses to tell the story through the ...

Literary Comparison of The Story of an Hour and The Necklace

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin and The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant are both short stories associated with the trials and tribulations of marriage, as well as love. Both stories also deal with the emotional and physical changes that are attributed to personal life changing events. In The Story of an Hour, the plot revolves around a woman, Louise Mallard, and her reaction to her husband’s death. In The Necklace, the plot is based upon a married couple M. Loisel and his wife Mathilde, and the turmoil a necklace has caused them. Although there are similarities in the ...