"The Necklace," by Guy de Maupassant is written in third person limited P.O.V., the reader understands the thoughts, feelings, and actions of one character, Mathilde. As in third person limited the narrator is not the character. The audience has intimate knowledge of Mathilde
Mathilde has an internal struggle which is that her only worth is "beauty, grace, and charm," she wants money and she wants to be desired by men in upper-classes. She also thinks she is too good for her husband and deserves better.
The story uses personification while describing the "mean" walls inside Mathilde's house giving a human quality to an object.
The inciting incident in this story is when Loisel tells Mathilde that they are invited to a formal party. Having nothing to wear immediately makes Mathilde bitter and angry.
She solves this problem, during the rising action, by buying when she buys a dress with her husband's savings and by borrowing a diamond necklace from Madame Forestier
The climax of this story is when upon returning home the necklace is missing. The couple lie to Madame Forestier to buy some time, searching endlessly for the necklace, they eventually give up looking and switch the necklace with a new one on credit for thousands of Francs. This missing necklace takes 10 years to repay and Mathilde is weathered from the hard times. Finally after ten years she runs into her old friend Madame Forestier.
The Denoument of the story is when Mathilde admits to losing the necklace and replacing it with a costly look-alike. Madame Forestier is shocked because she explains that the necklace was a imitation worth no more than five hundred Francs.
The story is written chronologically.
The controlling idea is that material things were all Mathilde cared about and that her desires for riches cost them 10 years of their lives repaying debts and become old and rough.
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