The Necklace is a twist ending story about a woman named Mme. Loisel and how she wants to feel rich for a party.  All she cares about in life is looking beautiful and rich.  The necklace she gets from a friend is beautiful and breath-taking. Mme. Loisel falls in love with the necklace and feels rich and powerful while wearing it.  After losing the necklace, she works for years trying to pay it off and finds out that it is not worth the value that she thought.  In the third paragraph of the story which starts with, "She suffered ceaselessly" and ending with "whose attention they all desire" (de Maupassant) we are told a great portion of what she wants and how she will act when she has the power.  This passage is significant because it gives a perspective on her real life and what she desires.  It also foreshadows how she will act when she reaches her rich fantasy.

This third paragraph in "The Necklace" focuses on her main goals in life.  It is a very important piece of the story because there are two parts to it.  The first part of the paragraph reveals Mme. Loisel's reality about how she's suffering with being poor and not having all these materialistic things.  This gives a depressed feeling due to her position because the reader gets a true feeling of what she is going through.  For example "She suffered from the poverty of her dwelling, from the wretched look of the walls, from the worn-out chairs, from the ugliness of the curtains" (de Maupassant). Without this paragraph, the audience would not feel as bad for her because they would not know her full background as being poor.  It is important to feel bad for the character because if not, then when the twist comes, the reader will not be as shocked as the author wants them to be.

The second part goes into a daydream of Mme. Loisel's about having opulent and luxurious objects that the higher-class can obtain. The detailed words and descriptions provided make it easily pictured also and set the depressed mood.  A few examples are "the long salons fitted up with ancient silk" and "heavy warmth of the hot-air stove" (de Maupassant).  The word choices in it foreshadows her future choices in life. For example, the use of "she thought" (de Maupassant) over and over again gives the idea that she is plotting out what the woman would do with her wealth if she ever achieves her goal. They also describe very vividly what she wants in her life.  Words like "antechambers", "oriental tapestry", "coquettish", and "boudoirs" (de Maupassant) are all used to describe her lovely rich fantasy.  Mme. Loisel is so obsessed with becoming a rich upper-class woman that she starts to sound greedy.  An example of this would be how the thought of other rich women "tortured her and made her angry" (de Maupassant).  This foreshadows how she could possibly be greedy in the future and not share with her friends like they do with her. 

A very noticeable hyperbole was used at the beginning and end of this paragraph.  "She suffered ceaselessly" (de Maupassant) is an exaggeration of her struggle being poor.  This shows how Mme. Loisel wants people to feel bad for her so she can get more help from her rich friends.  This foreshadows how she is becoming greedy about the riches and wanting more.  Yes, it must be terrible living like that but everyone can change their ways if they just put in the work and effort. Nothing valuable is easily obtained, therefore Mme. Loisel obviously wants people to give her things instead of working for them.  Another hyperbole is "men famous and sought after, whom all women envy and whose attention they all desire" (de Maupassant).  This is an exaggeration because not all girls want the same guys like she describes.  This shows how she does not fully understand how being rich really is. Her expectations of the rich life are very high and most likely not realistic.  She is even married to a man who isn't famous or rich.  It does not make sense why she would want those guys when she is happily married to an average man.  Now that she has a taste of the luxury life, she begins to have more of an expectation for her men.

This whole real life turning into the fantasy dream of hers is not impossible.  We know at the end of the story that her desires are achievable.  When Mme. Loisel lost the necklace, she spent a long time working for the money to buy her friend a new necklace.  If she would have put in the same effort earlier in life, she could have had all the luxuries she wanted. For example, after the necklace was lost, she "dismissed their servant; they changed their lodgings" (de Maupassant) and then she did house chores for other people.  The old Mme. Loisel would not have done this, instead she would have relied on other people for help.  This proves anyone can achieve their dreams if they put their minds to it. This could inspire people to work harder at a young age so they are not struggling as an adult.

 This story includes a valuable life lesson.  If anyone loses something of value to another person, instead of trying to avoid the problem and fix it their selves, they should own up to their mistake and let the person know.  She wastes much of her life trying to make up enough money to buy a new necklace, when in the end, it was not worth that much.  Instead of wasting her time on that necklace, she could have told her she messed up and then found out exactly what the necklace costs.  Sometimes people just have to take responsibilities for their actions and mistakes.  The third paragraph has the most meaning in it and is the most important to the story.  Without it, the audience would be unaware of Mme. Loisel's struggle before she was invited to the ball.  This gives the reader the emotional connection to the main character that every story needs.

