The Necklace is a masterpiece with exquisite conception and distinct theme. The original name of the novel Jewelry was translated into "necklace" when it was translated into Chinese. Judging from the content of the novel, it is better to use the title of "necklace" because it is the clue of the whole work, and the concept of "jewelry" contains too much scope and is unclear.
The novel is narrated according to the natural process of events, with the "necklace" as the clue throughout the whole text. Mathilde, the hero, "borrowed a necklace" from his friend Mrs Fraser in order to attend a dance. At the dance, the hero made a splash, but he was extremely happy and sad, and "lost his necklace"; In order to compensate other people's necklaces, Mrs. Loizai reluctantly "lost the necklace"; Make up the price of the necklace, but owe a debt that needs hard work and ten years to repay, so she is desperate to "pay off the debt"; Finally, when she breathed a sigh of relief, she got the news that the necklace she borrowed turned out to be fake. With the ups and downs of the novel, Mathilde, who yearned for luxury and comfort, was firmly left behind from the dreamy cloud and devoted herself to it for ten years. Through such a very coincidental and true story, the novel sharply satirizes the vanity and pursuit of pleasure of the petty bourgeoisie, and at the same time expresses deep sympathy for the protagonist who is fooled by life. To study this novel, we should deeply understand the author's creative intention and attach importance to the practical significance of the novel.
The characters in the novel Necklace are very typical. Mrs Loizai is the wife of a clerk. She is not rich in life, but in the capitalist world, she has the opportunity to associate with the upper class of the bourgeoisie. Therefore, she is deeply influenced by the bourgeois atmosphere and has infinite envy for the prosperity of the upper bourgeoisie. Because of dissatisfaction with marriage, I feel painful. When I come back from visiting my rich girlfriend, I will even be "sad, regretful, disappointed and miserable" for several days. She is a vulgar petty bourgeois woman, envious of vanity and pursuing luxury. In order to show off in the nightclub and satisfy her vanity, she tried her best to prepare clothes and borrowed a necklace from her girlfriend. To my surprise, I lost my borrowed necklace on my way home. In order to compensate for the necklace, she had to make up her mind to endure mental pain, bear economic pressure, "show a kind of heroism" and live a hard life that the poor know. It took her ten years of hard work, but she got ten years of bitterness with a moment of vanity. This is a strong satire on Madame Loire's vanity. But she still clings to the vanity of that moment. Who knows that it took ten years to pay off the debt, only to find that the original necklace was fake, which was another heavy blow to Mrs. Loizai's vanity.
The novel Necklace is ingenious in conception, which is beyond ordinary people's imagination.
The idea of "necklace" is very clever. The necklace was originally a fake, and it was not revealed by Loizai's girlfriend until the end, which surprised not only the heroine, but also the readers. In fact, if you think about it carefully, what seems unexpected is also reasonable and very credible. Because in the description, the author made three necessary foreshadowing and ingenious hints: First, when borrowing the necklace, her girlfriend Mrs. Frais was quite generous and said without hesitation: "Of course!" Secondly, when Mrs. Loizai nervously returned the necklace, Mrs. Frestech actually "didn't open the box to look at it", which shows that the necklace is not valuable jewelry. When Mrs. Loizai went to buy a necklace, the owner of the jewelry store "looked at many account books" and said, "... I only sell this box!" This also shows that the necklace and the box are not the original match. This description will increase the waves of the plot, making it fascinating, unforgettable and thought-provoking.
The psychological description of the novel Necklace reveals the mentality of the characters delicately. The author is very good at capturing some unusual details to show the inner world of the characters. For example, using "she always wants to be liked, admired, attracted and pursued" to express her dream of getting rid of a shabby, bleak and mediocre life, becoming a comfortable and flattering aristocratic lady; Through "she is more intoxicated with her beauty than all the female guests", it shows that she is consciously beautiful and has the confidence to jump out of the mediocre family and climb into the upper class. This vanity is caused by the requirement of treating women as playthings in capitalist society, which indicates the inevitability of Madame Loire's tragedy.