The Necklace Questions

Name: Yovanny Hernandez

The Necklace

What is the central conflict that has propelled the events so far? That the woman feels that she doesn’t belong on that social class that she deserves better than that.

CLARIFY: Why is the woman so unhappy?
The woman is so unhappy because she is kind of greedy she was more than she can have.

CAUSE AND EFFECT: Why does the invitation have the opposite effect on Madame Loisel from the one her husband expected? Because she wants to look rich for the other women and she has no dress to go to the party and she think that the rich guys are going to laugh at her.

Why do you think Mme. Loisel finally chooses only the diamond necklace? Because diamond are expensive and if you see a person with a diamond necklace is great because a diamond necklace shows class.

PREDICTING: Do you think Mme. Loisel and her husband will find the necklace? What might happen if they don't?
No and if they don’t find the necklace they’ll have to paid for it.
CAUSE AND EFFECT: Dow did the live of the Loisel’s change because Mme. Loisel lost the necklace? Yes because they worked for ten whole years to pay for a necklace.


THINK CRITICALLY
1. What might be Mme. Loisel's thoughts and feelings right after she learns that the diamond necklace was only a paste? I think that she feld stuped because she worked for ten years for a fake necklace.

2. How does a Madame Loisel change as a result of her experiences? Now she is not pretty she looks old and not young and beautiful and she learn the value of working hard, she learn how to be content and the value of money.

3. Madame Loisel pays dearly for losing the necklace. Do you think that experience ruins her life or saves her life? Explain your answer. I think that that experiences ruins worked like slave got older and lost her and, she lost all she had such as maid and apartment.

4. The literary critic Edward D. Sullivan declares that "The Necklace" is showing that in people's lives "blind chance rules". Do you agree or disagree? Cite evidence to support your opinion. I agree because look what happen to Mme. Loisel she lost everything In one night
when she lost the necklace.

5. Suppose that Madame Loisel had not lost the necklace. On the basis of her feelings and actions in the story, what do you think her future would have been like? She would have a marrie to a rich man like the ones on the party.

6. Do people still chase after wealth and social status today? Explain. Yes because everybody wants to live better.

7. What do you think Madame Loisel's life will be like now that she has paid off her debt and found real value of the necklace? Is going to chage againg and it will be peaceful now that she paid to all the people.

8. Analyze Madame Loisel and Monsieur Loisel' characteristics. They are very different because she is greedy and selfless.

9. SYMBOLISM: What does the necklace symbolize in the story? The conflicts
social status, richnees, wealth

10. From which point of view is the story told? Explain.
Third person omnicient.

11. What is the main conflict in the story?
evn thought that she is not rich she wantts to have a rich life.

12. What is the theme of the story?
Vanity is the quicksand of logic.

13. What is the moral of this story? Don't be greedy and appriciate what you have.

14. Outline the events in "The Necklace" that form:

* EXPOSITION: The exposition is when it says she was a charming young lady married to a minor clerck and having a middle class life and she is unhappy.

* RISING ACTION:When her husband brought her the invitation.


* CLIMAX:when she lost the necklace.

* FALLING ACTION:the worked for ten years

* RESOLUTION: Whe she see mne. forestier and mne. forestier told her that the necklace was paste.