Who is the antagonist and who is the protagonist of Guy de Maupassant's The Necklace?

Answer 1

Madame Loisele is the protagonist, because she is the main character and the one with the conflict to overcome in the story. She wanted to impress everyone but instead she found out that the rich are not as careful at spending money as she is.

She wanted to be a member of high class society even though she was not. She borrowed what she thought was an expensive necklace to prove that she belonged in high society. Then she lost it and lied about it to cover up the loss and wound up paying for her false pride and dishonesty by spending years in poverty paying for a necklace that was practically worthless.

Answer 2

Madame Loisele is the protagonist, because she is the main character and the one with the conflict to overcome in the story.

She wanted to be a member of high class society even though she was not. She borrowed what she thought was an expensive necklace to prove that she belonged in high society. Then she lost it and lied about it to cover up the loss and wound up paying for her false pride and dishonesty by spending years in poverty paying for a necklace that was practically worthless.

Answer 3

Madame Loisel is the main character since everything in the story revolves around her. The story is about her pride, vanity and dishonesty and the hardship of ten years living in poverty that resulted from those character flaws.

Answer 4

In the Necklace, Madame Mathilde Loisel borrows a seemingly expensive necklace to satisfy her vanity and attend a party way above her social class, only to lose it. Instead of telling the person who lent it to her, she works herself and her husband to the bone to buy a replacement, only to find out that the necklace she had lost was a fake.

It is pretty clear that Madame Loisel would be the protagonist, albeit a slightly unlikable one.
It is hard to designate an antagonist in this tale, since there's no clear cut enemy causing the problems. I would say that Madame Loisel herself, with her need to go to that party and deception (not mentioning that she had actually lost the original and giving back a replacement) would be the antagonist to herself.

The 'antagonist' of a story need not be a person. It can be some thing or character flaw that works against the protagonist. Here, the antagonist is Mme Loisel's own vanity, pride and dishonesty that caused her to need the necklace and to lie about losing it. These aspects of her character were what worked against her and caused her to spend ten years in poverty to replace a near worthless piece of jewelry.

Answer 5

The protagonist of Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace" is Mathilde Loisel, a discontented woman who yearns for a more luxurious lifestyle. The antagonist can be interpreted as Mathilde's own dissatisfaction and greed, which lead her to borrow a necklace to wear to a fancy event, setting off a chain of events that ultimately lead to her downfall.

Answer 6

There is no narrator. The point of view is omniscient.

Answer 7

Matilda loisel,monsieur loisel,madame forestier

Answer 8

The necklace is the antagonist in the short story The Necklace. Madame Loisel is the protagonist of the Guy de Maupassants story.

Answer 9

Madame Loisel, she is also the antagonist as her need for the life of luxury leads to the lost necklace