The Necklace

[Jessica]

Has anyone read The Necklace before? It's written by a French author, Guy de Maupassant.
for English each group chose a short story to teach to the class. Caitlin and I (yeah just the 2 of us no one else wanted to join me ) chose this short story, The Necklace and this is the objective (in our lesson plan):
Students will be able to identify the irony of the story.
Can anyone explain the irony of the story? I forgot it
Our lesson plans have to be turned in tomorrow and I have to finish typing up some quiz questions.

[Elaina]

Is this the story about a woman who borrowed a necklace, lost it then thinking it was the real thing bought another one and worked and worked until she paid off the one that she bought then came to find out it wasn't the real thing?

I don't know if this is the story you are referring to.

[Jessica]

Yes yes that's it!!!!!!!!!!

[Jessica]

please some help me figure out what the irony is....it's one of the quiz questions and I want to make sure I know the answer so I can tell everyone the correct answer when they're done taking a quiz!!

[LRW]

That type of irony is called dramatic irony, though it doesn't fit the textbook definition completely. (I know this because I'm looking at a textbook now.) More to the point Elaina's post sums up the biggest example of irony in the story. Also it seems that Wikipedia is no help on other examples of irony if any are present... Been a while since I read the story...

[sosia]

The irony??
The short story :
The encklace, Guy de Maupassant
What's irony?

Irony is a literary or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity or discordance between what one says or does, and what one means or what is generally understood

Discordance: The necklace was understood it was real, and wasn't.
Problem. The woman lost it. In order to avoid a direct conmffomtation, says i'ts borken a buy a new one. She spend 10 years paying it
Real: it was a false one. If they have spoken early, saying "I have lost it but I will pay for it", the friend had sayed it was a copy, and she hasn't suffered for 10 years.

We see a peson who suffers because sie understood that the necklace was real.

saludos
PD: A modern example is Alanis Morisette, with the song "Ironic" Album "Little Jagged Pill". Here the discordance it's between what's expected and what we receive.

An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It’s a black fly in your Chardonnay
It’s a death row pardon two minutes too late
Isn’t it ironic … don’t you think

[estribillo]
It’s like rain on your wedding day
It’s a free ride when you’ve already paid
It’s the good advice that you just didn’t take
Who would’ve thought … it figures

Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids good-bye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
‘Well isn’t this nice…’
And isn’t it ironic … don’t you think

[estribillo]

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything’s okay and everything’s going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything’s gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face

It’s a traffic jam when you’re already late
It’s a no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It’s meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn’t it ironic… don’t you think
A little too ironic… and yeah I really do think…

[estribillo]

Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
Helping you out

[Jessica]

So the irony is.......................???

[Jessica]

is this the irony of the story?
Madame Loisel longs to be rich which is really a fake existence and ends up having her life shaped by a fake necklace.

[poli]

Dramatic irony is a trick that circumstances play on a person's
beliefs or expectations. It's as if circumstances (either good or bad) are playing a trick on the protagonist. It's as if life is giving it's victim the following: and sometimes

Then, there's verbal irony, but that's another lesson.hint: it has something to do with the 4th smile down on the left too.

[Jessica]

I think theres a situationary irony right?