ii. 'How singular is life, and how full of changes!' Matilda thinks. Show the truth of this
statement in light of what happens to Matilda.
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Losing the necklace saved Mathilde and her husband. Before this she was spoiled and her husband tried to give her what she asked for. She had no appreciation for anything other than materialistic things. Having to spend so many years working on paying back the money, she came to appreciate...
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Explanation:
Mathilde and her husband were saved when the jewellery was lost. Prior to this, she had become spoilt, and her husband sought to fulfil her wishes. She had no appreciation for anything save worldly possessions. She learned to value setting goals and working toward them as a result of having to spend so many years focusing on paying back the money. She also learned to cherish and take pride in herself.
Guy de Maupassant makes a characteristic satirical play on the words singular and small in these lines because, as in "The Necklace" and "The Piece of String," the pettiness of the bourgeoisie in his native Normandy is one of his main themes in his literature. Because Mme. Loisel's unique (as in peculiar to her) pettiness (smallness) turns out to be her adversary. The evening could not have gone in the direction it has if Madame Loisel had been willing to attend the party without a necklace. Mathilde Loisel would not have endured as much if she had been honest with her buddy about losing her necklace.
That Mme. Loisel is tragic in her defiant pettiness is evidenced in her encounter with her old school friend in the denouement of the story. For, with her characteristic pettiness, she announces to Mme. Forestier how much she has sacrificed and suffered.
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