Final Timed-writing

Direction: From The Necklace, what might have been the quality of Mme. Loisel’s life if she had not lost the necklace? Is her life better or worse now?

Mme. Loisel loses the necklace in the ball, and she gets pain to pay for it for ten years. Apparently, it is a misery for her. In fact, however, it is a certain baptism to her heart and soul. If she had not lost the necklace, she might live a more comfortable life without suffering the punishment on her body, but her vanity would still lead to his unhappiness. I am deeply convinced that she would not have a better quality of life.

In the short story The Necklace, Mme. Loisel spends a huge amount of francs to buy a pretty dress and still cries for not having a gorgeous jewel to suit it. She thinks that she shall look like distress is she doesn’t have and an ornament. Vanity has deeply planted in her soul. It is the vanity that ruins the following ten years of her life. She “washes the dishes and the dirty linen”, “carries the slops down to the street every morning”, and she “dresses like a women of the people”. The decade costs her of her youth, her beauty and her vanity.

Let time go back. If she had not lost the necklace, what her life would be? Her inflating desire will just lead to a higher spending on the dress or the jewel, which do nothing but to meet her endless I unsatisfiable needs. Her life will continue like her previous one, without any change. Her vanity will bring a heavier and heavier burden to her husband, probably threatening their marriage. Her demands for a upper-class life will eventually push her and her family to the edge of life.

I am deeply touched by the ending of the story. When Mme. Loisel meets Mme. Forestier, and tells her the pains and the punishment that she suffered all these years, I believe she has awakened. She takes her part to pay for the bill with her work. The future seems promising. Without vanity, I think, she will live more happily.

25.5.07 03:12