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Exposition, Mme. Loisel is introduced.
Mme. Loisel is introduced in the story.
Her personality and character begins to build up with intircate details described by the omniscient narrator.
Setting builds up, Paris, France, late 1890s. -
Period: to
"The Necklace"
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Rising Action, Husband recieves invitation to the ball
As Mme. Loisel personality is exhibited when her husbandd comes home excited with an invitation to a ball with the Minister of Public Administration, By now, the reader knows that Loisel is embarresed of her class, and hence, dislikes attending a ball full of people who will look down on her. -
Rising Action, Mme. Loisel wants a pretty gown
To comfort Loisel, her kind and loving husband, allocates the money he was going to use to buy a hunting rifle with, for her to buy a pretty gown that will satisfy her needs for the near future. -
Rising action, Loisel is deserate for possesing jewels for the ball
After buying the gown, Mme. Loisel, realizes she must also wear jewelry for the ball. Unfortunatley, she does not posses any. Soon her husband mentions that Loisel's good friend, Mme. Foriestier can lend her some jewels. Loisel is delighted with that idea. -
Rising action, The Necklace
After hours of picking and dicarding, Mme. Loisel, finally narrows her search to fragile diamond necklace, packed in a satin black case. Though this necklacce, Mme. Loisel feels that shee has reached her full potential. -
Rising Action, The ball; A joyful night for Loisel
"The night of the ball arrived. Madame Loisel was a great success. She was prettier than any other woman present, elegant, graceful, smiling and wild with joy. All the men looked at her, asked her name, sought to be introduced. All the attaches of the Cabinet wished to waltz with her. She was remarked by the minister himself....She danced with rapture, with passion, intoxicated by pleasure...these awakened desires and of that sense of triumph which is so sweet to woman's heart." -
Climax, Where is the necklace?
The morning after, Loisel finds no necklace around her neck: "I have--I have--I've lost Madame Forestier's necklace." Her husband says that is proposterous and retracers their steps to find it. -
Climax, Tough luck
With no luck, Loisel and her husband decide to buy a diamond necklace quite like Mme. Foriester's. The necklace of their choice is 40,000 francs, much more than they can afford. So to cover this expense, they use the money they have inherited, and borrowing multiple loans. Loisel and her husband decide to do whatever they can to pay back the loans as fast as possible. All in all, this is the turning point of the story. -
Falling action, Loisel's actions
Loisel lives the bare minimum of life; life without any luxury. This life calls for many things:
The dimissal of their made,
the change of their lodgings,
the heavy work required to maintain a place,
the bargaining required to save little money.
Her husband worked late nights.
All in all, this is the turning point of the story. -
Denuoment, Ten years later...
After ten brutal years, the couple manage to fullfil their debts, but the effects are evident on Mme. Loisel. One day, she meets Mme. Foriester who could not recognize her. Unlike, the young and charming Mme. foriester, Loisel now looked old and weary. Now that she had returned "the necklace" , she explains her long story. At the end of it, Mme. Foriester reveals that the necklace was fake and costs at most 500 francs. Situational irony is expressed as such an ending is unexpected by the reader.