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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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What is Mme. Loisel's "station" in life? Why is this important? What does Mme. Loisel
want? Why is that important?
Mme. Loisel grew up in a family she believed to the most beautiful among other children.
Having this perspective in mind, she knew that her life would be great than any other person in
the family. One can say that she was naïve before coming to the reality of life. She needed
everything good to meet her needs and not suffer as many does. All her family members were
wealth because they all worked in clerks. For this reason, she knew that her life would be better
than all his family members.
Mme. Loisel's station in life is a married woman. It is critical in light of the fact that she
doesn't want to be in average workers. She needed to be in the high society. What she needs is
imperative since she can't scrutinize her needs. The reason she can't accomplish this on the
grounds is because she is lazy and cries for her family members. In the general public she lives
in, a French society, she can't climb in class. The reason she can't climb is because she finds it
hard to work and present her name to the society as a learnt and hardworking lady.
She is a middle class housewife. This is critical in light of the fact that we see that she is
despondent with her present station, that she wants a higher station and supposes she should be
in or ought to have been naturally introduced to a higher station, which eventually prompts her
ruin and her activities prompt her better half's defeat too. In this nation you are permitted to raise
your station, in the event that you buckle down or develop something that procures you heaps of
cash or gangs an expertise that can prompt profiting, for example, games or acting.

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?

According to the information given in the story, it is clear that she was a maid. Because
of her self-contentedness not exclusively did she have a hard next ten years of life yet her
significant other must be a piece of it as a result of her. So as should be obvious...


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