the irony is Mathilde desperately wants to be of a higher class so she sacrifices one night of excitement and being noticed by the rich that she ends up spending her whole life even more unhappy and poor than she started out because she borrowed what she thought was a diamond necklace and ended up losing it.
The ultimate irony is that the necklace that Madame Loisele borrowed to prove that she was a member of high society proved to be as fake as her belief that she was a member of that high society.
also she thought that the ball was going to make her life better because of all the rich people attempting it, but it ends up making her life worse because she loses the necklace
The irony in "The Necklace" is that the necklace was a fake. Instead of asking or telling her friend about how the necklace was lost, she ruins her life (and her husband's) to maintain her pride while making a ridiculous assumption. I don't know if I would even let my sister borrow a necklace of enormous and plentiful diamonds. Actually, I don't think I would even feel comfortable walking around with all that bling.
situational irony
there are many different types of irony in this short story.
the reckoning short story
Envy and jealousy is created throughout Maupassants story
The genre of The Necklace is short story.
The irony in this short story is that the sniper later finds out that who he shot was his brother.
role of the diamond necklace in the story
The Necklace, byGuy de Maupassant
Where she puts it on.
Suicide and irony
"The Necklace" is a short story by Guy de Maupasant about a spoiled but charming middle class woman who becomes poor through bad fortune. The story has a suprise ending!
In the short story of the necklace does the narrator paint a mostly sympathetic picture of Mathilda.