It is of the utmost importance to analyze the attributes that Maupassant helps to determine the particular "caste" of a woman. The author -- who was considered "the most popular artist oof his day" (Artinian 9) explicitly states that a woman's fortune does not determine what her position in life is
Instead, what is most eminent is the fact that this woman loves all of the things that she does not have. Furthermore, she believes that these things are necessary for others to be attracted to her, proving that she is "in passion none too well informed" (Galilei 1)
However, Mrs. Loisel does not see things this way, which is why her story -- in which she loses a worthless necklace that she believes is very expensive, and forfeits all of the attributes that she did have (many of which are listed above) to pay for it -- helps to prove that beauty and attractiveness is not synonymous with money, and may very well be part of "the ills of society" (Johnson 1)
And she loved nothing else; she felt herself made for that only. She would so much have liked to please, to be envied, to be seductive and sought after" (Maupassant, 1907)
Furthermore, she believes that these things are necessary for others to be attracted to her, proving that she is "in passion none too well informed" (Galilei 1). The most interesting part about this particular theme is the fact that the author, although "impersonal and detached" (Sullivan 136), does not appear to agree with Mrs
Mathilde suffers so greatly from her lifestyle that she cannot even visit a friend from school because her friends is so rich and in possession of everything that Mathilde desires that it makes Mathilde incredibly depressed when she must return home to her dreary life. Maupassant clever way of storytelling "allows him to lay bare his character's inner life" (Bell, 2010, p
What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. But she felt it, creeping out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air" (Chopin, 2002, p
While, of course, there are many husbands who do help with children and the home, the duties of taking care of children and taking care of the house by-and-large fall into the laps of women still in this society, which reveals that today's modern woman is not that far away from the character that Chopin wrote about in 1894. Some have certainly questioned the character of Louise: "Is the degree of 'self-assertion' or freedom that she thinks she has attained a real possibility in a world of normal human relationships?" (Deneau, 2003, p
e., her identity as an individual) to the culture of paternalism" (Jamil, 2009, p
783) and the reader, from the beginning, has the sense that Mathilde is a woman trapped both literally and figuratively in a life that she loathes. Louise Mallard's predicament is different from Mathilde's in that Louise never really questions her life with her husband until the day she gets a knock on the door and she is told that her husband is dead -- news that she does not question, for some reason (and just one of many inferences that are not questioned in Chopin's shorty story (Mayer, 2010, p
Some of these beads may be made of shell. There was another Faience necklace discovered in the same period in another Egyptian tomb which was described by its excavator as containing 'small blue and black glazed disc, shell disc, blue glazed cylinder, flattened crumb (Petrie, 26)
This necklace was found in one ancient Egyptian tomb and evidently manifested value despite its cheap nature. (Faience was a relatively cheap material) (Andrews, 1981) The beads are various scintillating colors representing various values of the Afterlife
The statement, "Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with heart trouble" is used to bring out two meanings (Chopin 158)
" As indicated by him, she does not need anything as an identity as far as "common delicacy," "natural style," and "deftness of mind" that could "put a ghetto young lady on a level with the most astounding woman in the area." She is aware of her magnificence and is in the conviction that with her identity she could be in the middle of any world class gathering (Fonseka)
This is well illustrated in the fiction of Kate Chopin, one of the top American authors of the 19th Century. According to Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar who were literacy critics, the oscillation between despair and extremes of exuberance is well depicted in Kate Chopin's literature "The Story of an Hour" (Robinson)