CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

CLASS 10

THE NECKLACE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What kind of character is Mathilde?
A
Static, because she changes and learns in the story
B
Dynamic, because she changes and learns in the story
C
dynamic, because she doesn’t learn anything
D
Static, because she doesn’t learn anything
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The character Mathilde in Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace ” would be classified as a dynamic character. A dynamic character is one who experiences an internal change by the end of the text. Mathilde would be classified as a dynamic character because she learns a lesson.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the story “The Necklace", Mathilde Loisel is a dynamic character. She transforms and evolves during the story. At the beginning of the story, she is a beautiful young woman married to a minor clerk. She incessantly grieves at her middle-class station in life and yearns for luxuries.

Detailed explanation-3: -Madame Mathilde Loisel, is a round and dynamic character. As a young, married woman, Madame Loisel is pretty and charming, but her vanity makes her feel entitled to more than what she has. In fact, because of her looks, she believes Fate has made a mistake, that she was destined for more.

Detailed explanation-4: -In Guy de Maupassant’s short story, The Necklace, the main character, Mme. Loisel is a dynamic character, in that by the end of the story she is no longer even recognizable in appearance or in character as the same person she was at the onset of the story.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mathilde is a raging, jealous woman who will do anything in her power to reverse the “mistake of destiny” that has plunged her into what she perceives as a wholly inappropriate and inadequate life.

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