The Necklace Annotations
imagery
"...shabbiness of her apartment, the dinginess of the walls, the worn-out appearance of the chairs, the ugliness of the draperies."
proves 3rd person omniscient
"He hadn't give that a thought." - his thoughts
direct characterization
"She dressed plainly because she could not afford the fine clothes..."
direct characterization
"She was one of those pretty and charming girls, born, as if by an accident of fate, into a family of clerks."
climax
"The necklace was gone."
foreshadowing
"Why of course."
indirect characterization
'She grieved incessantly, feeling that she had been born for all the little niceties and luxuries of living. She grieved over the shabbiness of her apartment, the dinginess of the walls, the worn-out appearance of the chairs, the ugliness of the draperies."
point of view
3rd person omniscient
setting change
Champs Elyesse- a famous boulevard in Paris
summary
Monsieur Loisel is content and madame loisel is missing on life because of her focuses of wanting to be wealthy and feels entitled to it.
setting
Paris, late 1800s
setting change
ball/ party
paragraph 75-76 "Mme. Loisel experienced the horrible like the needy live. she payed her part, however, with sudden heroism..."
cost of madame loisel's fantasy
monsieur loisel's struggles
he wants his wife to be happy but she wants the expensive things that they cant afford
symbol
her shame paragraph 40
indirect characterization
loisel works hard but she can't accept it because she wants the nice things
change in setting
madame forestier's house
symbol
madame loisel appears to be one thing but is actually something else paragraph 33
symbol
madame loisel shame paragraph 44
conflict
man vs society- she feels pressured to have nice things to be admired by society man vs self- struggles with own dreams
theme
material goods can't bring happiness
"...both sick with despair and anxiety."
mood change
"He went about raising the money, asking a thousand fancs from one, four hundred from another,a hundred here, sixty there..."
mood- desperation
tone
observant, detached
indirect characterization
paragraph 66
paragraph-37-38
she's lost in pride and vanity
indirect characterization
shoes she forgets about him- no gratitude paragraph 39
irony
spent 10 years paying for a diamond necklace when original was a fake
mood
tension, stress, grief, despair
symbol
the street is a symbol of the pain she felt when she lost the necklace sees herself as a martyr
theme
things aren't always as they appear
character foil
to madame loisel he's kind, generous, and wants to please her paragraph 20-22 and 25-26