Compar and Contrast the Story of an Hour and the Neckles
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The Compare and Contrast of The Story of an Hour and The Necklace Tammy Brettschneider Eng 125: Introduction to Literature Instructor: April MacGrotty July 23, 2012
As I read “The Story of An Hour” and “The Necklace” they both seem to be that of the late olden days in which women were meant only to be a housewife and nothing else but a housewife. They weren’t able to have any rights to anything that the men were able to do. For they where only aloud right to staying in the house, to do the house work and for most of all to take care of her loving husband and or the kids if they do have any. Back in those days the women weren’t even really considered to be human. Now in these days when there is a femain conditions that comes up it is considered it’s kind of hard to think that back in the days the women aren’t at all part of soviet like they are now. In the stories you can see that the women were both reflected by this. In here you see that the women both didn’t any type of status and they weren’t able to work out side of their homes. To me both of these women were and seemed to be in this thing we call a loveless marriage. In the stories the author seems to wire about two women whom seem to so very different but also seem to be a like in some ways. The women seem to have so much trouble in accepting the way their fate is and also trying to reject the way women in their days live their lives. To me Mathilde Loisel and Louise Mallard are so much alike they both seem to dream a life they wish they could have but know that they can’t have it and that seems to kill them so deeply. But one day their dream seemed to come true, but their destiny seems to play a big part in the stories and then the women end up losing everything in their life. The two stories both have a loving husband in which they truly don’t at all appreciate anything that they do for their wives. When you do read it both the stories have a very sad and tragic ending. When you read the stories the very begging seems to be so clear that both women dream what it would be like if they were living such a different life. To me what seems to be so different from them both is that they so want a different treasure. When read I found that Mathilde seems to be suffering from the middle-class lifestyle that she does live in. In this life style she has no dresses, no jewels, or anything like that at all. When she dreamed that’s all she really ever wanted for she just wanted to please, and to be so charming. Mathilde wants nothing but to reach out and tell her friends about this. To where Madame wanted nothing more than to change places with her if she was able to do so but she was stuck with her husband who was a clerk inside their we would call a middle-class apartment. In the story called “The Story of An Hour” Louise doesn’t seem to be suffering from her middle class life that she lives in. she is such a very fragile women who is suffering from a bad heart and seems to be in a marriage that she can’t get out of and so very much wants to get out of it. In the story you can tell that she real does truly love her husband but want to have more freedom then what she has. When she gets told about her husband’s death she does greave but seems to be somewhat happy about it and happy at the fact that she can have the independence that she so longed for. They both want dreams and some thoughts that are very much selfish but are also self-involved but that is so commuting. When Mathilde has her dream id does end up coming true. For when her husband gets of work and comes home he gives her this not that ended up not being a not an invite to a ball that is happening soon. When he gives her this he thought it would make her happy for he has seen how sad she has been but realizes that she still isn’t happy at all. The reason for this was because she didn’t have a nice dress to wear to the ball. She then looks back at her husband and tells him to give it to someone else who can use it. I feel that by her doing this she is being so selfish but her husband is the opposite. That’s why he had already pulled money out and gave it to her and told her to go and buy a dress. When she went and got her new dress she then went to a friend’s house and borrowed a diamond necklace. She ended up shining at the ball and she seemed to be very happy. The reason she was so happy is that her dreams where answered for the first time ever. To her and her husband she looked absolutely amazing than ever. She was so amazing that when she was at the ball all of the men wanted to dance with her and every woman just hated her for she was just so pretty. When she left the ball, her and her husband walked around as they went looking for a cab to get a ride home in. When doing this she had realized that she had lost the diamond neckles that her friend lent her to use. She then realized that having her dream being fulfilled made her husband’s life ruined for about ten years of their lives. When her freedom was being formed already it was at a level she didn’t realize it was at. When Mathilde, who was the wow of the ball and Loisel who was in a shock as she tried to get over the fact that her husband has died. To her she has this feeling that she isn’t all that pretty and feels that to have her dreams fulfilled is going to be her toughest desire to have fulfilled. She tells her self all she wants and need it just a little freedom. She wanted this for she has felt that she has longed for this and she also felt she did deserved this too. To some people waiting for their destiny isn’t always around the corner like other people say it is. If she was in Mathilde’s shoes and she lost the diamond neckles she would go right out and replace it but she would also tell the friend what really happened to it. I feel that Louise had it hard though. Her sister went to where she was which was downstairs to check on her sister to see how she was doing after she had gotten the news about her husband. When she opened the front door for there was a knock on the door and their she stood in shock for her husband who she thought and was told was dead was standing right there. To her amazement he was not in the railroad accident like everyone though he was in. from the shock she was in she just collapsed right there and died due to her having a heart attack due to shock. The two women had another thing in coming and that was and that was how much they truly did care for their husbands. When you read the story you can tell that her husband stands by her 100 percent and does not her for the lost of the necklace at all. When she and her husband realized they lost the neckles they walked all over the place where the ball was in hope that they would find the necklace, they also went to the police station, and they put a add in the paper tell anyone that if they find it they had a reward for that person. That’s when they had no luck they went out and had it replaced for their friend. When she bought it she had to get a loan for it but her husband loved her so much that he did relied that she couldn’t pay it off for she didn’t have a job for she wasn’t able to work her husband put his job on the line for he loved her that much. So that they could get the loan paid off he went out and got him another job working nights. In the mornings he would go and work in the Ministry. They didn’t know it would take those ten years to pay it off but it did for the debt ended up being over 36 thousand fracs but with the love and support of each other they did get it paid off. When you read “The Story of an Hour” you can tell that she really doesn’t seem to know her husband as well as us all though she did. But when you read “The Necklace” you can really tell that she seems to know her husband a little better then Louise. In both stories it shows us that everything doesn’t always happen the way that we dream and wish that it would go the way that we want it to go or the way we want it to happen to us. When I got done reading and trying to find the different between the two stories I feel the readers will end up coming up with their own way on how the two stories are different and the how they are the same in their own way and not the way that I have though that they are the same and different. I feel that the two women have this feeling that they are lacking at and in the end it ended up being a very sad ending for both women but you can tell that these women weren’t really married to the ones they loved but because they were so young and didn’t real know what there were doing for back in those days you didn’t real pick who you would married they were picked for you. When you read these stories you would think they really did love their husbands but in the end you find out that they did real care about what their husbands did for them for they seemed to be so greedy even thought they had depended on their husbands for everything they needed. This is why when you read you see how they are so much different then each other. I want to say that the one that I do feel sorry for is Louis more than I do for Mathilde for hers is sadder then Mathilde. When got to the end of “The Story of an Hour” it ended up being real sad for Loisel ended up being sad for she died due to her having a real bad heart in which ended up failing on her. When Louise died it looks like it well benefit her then if she was alive. When she has this feeling of freedom from her husband she starts to see her dreams coming true and what she has done to make them come true. I feel that nobody knows what her life would be like if she even tried any of her stuff she wanted to do for her freedom. Do you all feel that if she was still with her husband that she would have never been able to fulfill her dreams or goals? I have to say that if she didn’t pass away then she would have never been able to do what she has been dreaming of and have her goals met at all.
