The Facts of Life In Guy de Maupassant's, "The Necklace", the author utilizes the third person narrator throughout the story to refrain from showing any judgment towards the character or their actions. At the same time, the author still had the ability to enter the thoughts of his characters to portray the feelings that the characters were going through in the story. This helped understand the changes in feelings and the importance of the theme. …
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…last sentences, "Why, my necklace was paste. It was worth at most five hundred francs" (183). It showed that even rich people as judged didn't always buy the most extravagant items. It made her realize that even though she had suffered for ten years to repay their loans, it made her a better person at the end. It goes to show that the truth would have been the better route to take in the first place.