Please give me some questions and answers of the chapter "The Diamond Necklace" by Guy De Maupassant.
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Answers
Answer:
What kind of a person is Mme Loisel — why is she always unhappy?
Ans) Mme Loisel is a very unhappy and unsatisfied person. She is not happy with her married life, her house or for that matter anything in her life. She always keeps on dreaming about how her life would have been if she were born in a rich house, married in a rich house and had lots of money to buy things. She is a greedy woman and always keeps on thinking of having more and more things.
Q2) What kind of a person is her husband?
Ans) Her husband is a very caring and a loving man. He is not greedy as he stays happy with whatever he has. He appreciates the little things that life has given him and does not want to see his wife unhappy for which he sacrifices his own needs.
Q3) What fresh problem now disturbs Mme Loisel?
Ans) Mme Loisel’s husband agrees to buy her a dress worth 400 francs and sacrifices his own requirement of buying a gun but Mme. Loisel, being a greedy woman starts acting strangely and demands jewellery to wear or else she will not go to the party.
Q4) How is the problem solved?
Ans) When she does not agree to wear flowers to the party, her husband suggests her to approach her friend Mme Forestier who is a rich lady and would lend her jewellery to wear at the party.
Q5) What do M. and Mme Loisel do next?
Ans) M and Mme. Loisel make a lot of efforts after they realize that they have lost the necklace. They try to remember the cab number so that they can check there, M. loisel goes to the tracks where she could have dropped it, reports at the police station and cab offices. He also gives an advertisement in the newspaper saying that the person who returns it will be rewarded but nothing works. So they finally decide to replace the necklace by buying a necklace similar to the one they have lost.
Q6) How do they replace the necklace?
Ans) They buy a necklace from a shop for 36000 francs. They themselves have only 18000 francs so they borrow the rest of the money by making up false stories and taking loans from a lot of lenders.
Some extra questions.
Question 1.
What would Matilda often dream of?
Answer:
Matilda would often dream of all the delicacies, luxuries, elegant dinners, marvellous dishes, rich silver, beautiful dresses, jewels, adoration and a life of glory. She would escape into her dreams from the dullness of her very humble existence.
Question 2.
Why did Matilda throw the invitation spitefully?
Answer:
Matilda was simply displeased when her husband showed the invitation. She felt humiliated and threw the invitation spitefully as she had nothing beautiful enough to wear to such a grand gathering.
Question 3.
Describe Mme Loisel’s success at the ball.
Or
Do you think M Loisel had an enjoyable evening at the ball? Give reasons for your answer.
Answer:
Mme Loisel was the centre of attention at the ball. Her beauty, her grace, her joy and the gorgeous smile captivated all. Men sought to be presented to her. She danced happily at her conquest of all.
Question 4.
What excuse did Loisels put up to explain the delay in returning the necklace?
Answer:
Loisels had lost the necklace and needed time to find an identical one. Thus, Loisels wrote a letter to Mme Forestier with an excuse that the clasp of the necklace was broken and they needed time to get it repaired.
Question 5.
How did Loisels manage to pay for the necklace?
Answer:
The necklace cost Loisels thirty six thousand francs. Loisel had to chip in his entire inheritance of eighteen thousand francs and the rest he had to borrow from the usurers.
Question 6.
How did Mme Loisel now know the life of necessity?
Answer:
To pay the debt of eighteen thousand francs, Loisels let go of their decent living. They lived in impoverished neighbourhood. Matilda had to cook, clean, wash, mend, bring water and bargain with the butcher and grocer. Her husband worked day and night to save every sou.
Question 7.
Describe Mme Loisel after ten years.
Answer:
Ten years of poverty and hardship steal away Matilda’s youth and beauty. She becomes a strong and hard woman, who is poorly dressed with untidy hair and red ragged hands.
Question 8.
What do you think of M Loisel as a husband? Cite instances from the text to support your answer.
Answer:
M Loisel was a caring and supportive husband. Fie sacrificed his wishes and the money he inherited from his father for his wife.
Question 9.
Why was Matilda’s friend astonished to see her at the end of the story?
or
Why did Jeanne not recognise her friend, Matilda?
Answer:
Jeanne, Matilda’s friend, could not recognise her as she seemed an old and worn out poor woman. Matilda was no longer her former beautiful and Joyous self.
Question 10.
Comment on the use of irony in the text.
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How had sacrifice of Mme Loisel’s been in vain?
Answer:
The irony in the story is based on the fact that the Loisels spend 10 years of toil and frugality paying for a necklace which turns out to be a cheap imitation.