3 years later and this is still helping students out! Thank you so much!

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Your way of talking and interprinting things is so understanble, convincing and so accurate. I appreciate.

I remember reading this short story in my 9th grade English class.

6 years later and it is still helping students! Damn this is awesome!

we are currently reading this in my online class, this helped a bunch!

I'm doing a character analysis on this right now... how convenient.

You always share great insight and bring out new ideas/perspectives... Thank you!

I just started an English Lit class (at the age of 27) thinking it would be easy, and Thank goodness for your videos! Otherwise, I would not have understood any of these short stories we are working on. Thank you thank you!

This is a great story by this great author. It is ever modern.

Thank you so much 9 years later this is still helping students 😊

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This analysis of "The Necklace" provides terrific insights and helps to explain why de Mauppasant's story is so great and will never grow old. I'd love to see Rebecca do a companion analysis of O, Henry's "The Gift of the Magi," as both have powerful , but very different underlying messages revolving around the theme of sacrifice.

This helped me finish my group assessment on the Necklace and give me an idea to do it. Thank you Six Minute Scholar.

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October 22, 2021. I am a college student from Philippines and this really helps me a lot!! Thank you so much and I really appreciate you, Ma'am.

It is 8 years from then..... and her video is really helping me at my study.

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Guy de Maupassant wrote over 300 short stories and this one, The Necklace (La Parure), is one that is often anthologised, along with Boule de Suif (Ball of Fat) and Mademoiselle Fifi. All great stories. I have a few other personal favourites, though. Such as, The Mask, Two Friends and Regret. Must admit I haven’t read them all and there are probably many others that I’d enjoy if I got around to it. Love to see more Maupassant (if you have time) and Chekhov, too (The Lady with the Dog; The Black Monk), and other famous short stories like James Joyce’s The Dead and John Cheever’s The Swimmer. Thanks for the analysis. You have a great channel. Thx for sharing.

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Thank you for this. You helped me while studying for my teaching exam.

thanks a lot, this is one of my stories to study, and I will deal with it in the exam tomorrow :)

I don't think that Guy de Maupassant would waste a good story on a character that is not exemplary in some way. The woman protagonist of "The Necklace" has always stood out in my mind as a victim of her convictions. We all have ideas for which we are willing to fight for. Whether they are the right ideas or the wrong ideas is simply not up to us.

Love your videos. Have you done the short story "Araby" by James Joyce? If not, vould you? Thanks.

You raise a good point about the issue of whether or not the main character is a sexist depiction of women in general. When tackling a character such as this, how do you make the distinction between what's supposed to be an individual character with the flaws that come with that, and a character that's meant to be representing a specific group of people?

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Did Mathilde change after all the pain she had been through? Yes , After ten years of suffering Mathilde was not the same person she was , she became a stronger woman. When it came to “still young, still beautiful, still charming” Mme. Forester’s question, even the surprising question itself was just a deep injury to Mathilde , but she had no inferiority, no pain, no jealousy, but calmly say, “No. I am Mathilde Loisel”. This was the first time the main character said her complete name,it was like a rebirth , she was also completed at this moment. “smiled with proud”, “native joy” , this was no longer the girl that immersed in fantasy and vanity , but a woman that was strong, brave, mature and confident. She recovered herself ---just like how people should have been so: happy because of her inner self.

Life brought her that situation so she could correct it. So well said and correct.

Around 9 years now, it is helping.

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Belle explication. Merci beaucoup. À la prochaine fois! ❣️

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still relevant critique of materialism....although saw the punchline coming from a mile a away. But in today's context it's not a surprise.

such a great video it was, Thank you

Actually 6 years later and it still helps us😂🙏❤

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Very meaningful story explained nicely. This story reminds me of another story that I read during my teenage. I don't recall name of the author but it could be Tolstoy. The gist of the story is that main character of story, a farmer, is a greedy person. He has small peace of land but he wanted more of it. Somehow he ends up having mercy of biggest farmer in the town who makes him proposal that he can have as much land as he wish from him but with a condition. Condition is that on a given morning,he will arrive on property of wealthy farmer and start roaming on it. Whatever area he roams on will be his provided he comes back to starting point by sunset. As per condition, farmer arrives on the property on given morning and started roaming on endless property of wealthy person. As he travels, he finds more and more reasons to go further to have more property. Since he has to come back to starting point by sunset, he doesn't even eat or drink to save time . His greed makes him go farther and farther. In the end while he is coming back near starting point, he dies of exhaustion. The moral of the story is thAt we all need about 6 feet of land for our cremation/funeral. Not more than that

Thanks again, one of my favorite stories. You're beautiful and have a beautiful voice. "'Just the facts, ma'am!'" - Joe Friday

Ok now I understand it thank you very much I got a quiz over it tomorrow this should help

Excellent explanation!

Maupassant is a master of writing!! Truck driver from Finland. The Donkey is my personal favourite. Or was it the Horse? Kind of confusing, because i did read it in Finnish.

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I greatly disagree with your analysis of the main character. How do you know she hasn't grown by the end of the story? Yes she should have appreciated what she had more, but why must she be demonized for wanting to experience the high life once or twice?

2020...still helping... thanks

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7 years later and still helping me

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Who is the antagonist in this story?

May I know whether her friend and her husband are round/flat character and whether they are dynamic or static?

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Hello, what do you think about female power in Mathilde's relationship? What do you think makes Mathilde having more power than her husband?

It is true our character has been under the spell of desiring more, even the best Cinderella experience possible. It is also true that she was proud enough to endure much privation in order to make good the loss. Many years of suffering. The story could have been written with a confession and assurance that the loss could be easily dealt with; or many other ways.

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This me wanting to return to the love I once had but all the love was fake and I've wasted years dwelling on what was when in reality, it was never.

Extremely handy

Thanks now I’m most likely to get an a on my test

I'm teaching this story to high school students in China. This is very helpful!

Nice.

I am reading this book in my online class

I think that she got stronger (I mean mentaly)after the ten years

RIP ten years of work

I agree

Miss, Did you know what the point of view this story? I have some examination about this story, can you tell me, miss?

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Is this a character analysis?

I read this a million years ago but I remember thinking that the friend must have give her the real necklace back, minus the cost of the fake and so, would she and her husband enjoy many years of comfort with the money from the necklace?

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Professor, doesn't she change through the tough years? She certainly seems stronger and more content at the end when she meets Mme Forestier...

Poor girl!

Good. No, he's not generalizing about women. He's just using one character, a story about her. Some women can be shallow - like men can be. Hit the nail on the head where you say the story is about the event she really creates being there so she can choose to change, grow.

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This commentary helped me appreciate the motivation of the woman in this story, but I think that back then many women with the same assets and liabilities of this woman would have behaved in the same way. People were very conscious of their social status back then, and I think most beautiful women would want more out of life than a lowly clerk could give them. I can understand how tempting this piece of jewelry would be to this woman. I'm wondering if there is any connection between this story and "Madame Bovary". I also wonder about the issue of identity in this story. It's not too much of a reach to read this story as a comment on identity. What we see in life comes through a template called "identity", and most often that template distorts reality for people, and when it is removed people are looking at a world that is very different than what they thought it was.

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If only she had listened to her husband and told her friend about having lost the necklace,it could have been easily replaced,being just pastes. But she would have had to humble herself and put her pride aside.

Why do you feel a need to seek a flaw in the writer being mean to women. I suppose this is a post modern way of looking at things. Maupassant was an author, therefore whatever he includes in his fiction can never be held accountable for whatever his way of thinking is. Stories are stories, and an author has every right to include anything he sees good, fit, or whatever, in his/her work.

What is the irony dramatic and verbal ??

I wish you would have brought up Mme Loisel's dishonesty. She could have saved herself 10 years of hard labor if she just would have humbled herself and told Mme. Forestier that she lost the necklace.

When you have to make an argumentative essay using critical analysis and are so sick of reading long stories cauze you have numerous activity in math and other subject within one week. Well it is time to steal ideas through internet.:)

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