CLASS 10
THE NECKLACE
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Question
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They both want to be rich.
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They both owe someone money.
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They both have to make sacrifices.
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They both go to a Christmas party.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mathilde and Della have M similarities between them. To begin with, both of these two main characters have a husband, who sacrifices for them. Della’s husband, Jim, who is poor, sells his ChristmasWW giftWW to buy a newWW oneX for Della.
Detailed explanation-2: -Della and Mathilde are both women who struggle against money. The two women have been blessed with physical beauty, In the first sentence of “The Necklace” the author states “She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of artisans.” (Guy de Maupassant 1).
Detailed explanation-3: -The Necklace composed by Guy de Maupassant and O. Henry’s The Gift of the Magi both revolve around married couples and how they cope with their current financial status. The Necklace depicts the life of a poor Parisian couple, the Loisels, in which the woman, Mathilde, bases her happiness on materialistic wealth.
Detailed explanation-4: -Personalities: the main character Mathilde is an ungrateful woman who seeks riches and admiration. Alternatively, the main character in The Gift of the Magi, Della Young, is compassionate and works very hard to buy her husband a present, selling the one thing that was more precious to her than anything else, her hair.
Detailed explanation-5: -Both stories deal with young and poor couples who face in a objective and are surprised with a unexpected, ironic turn.