Based on the story THE NECKLACE BY GUY MAUPASSANT: question in description

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SHE was one of those pretty and charming girls, born by a blunder of destiny in a family of employees. She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of being known, understood, loved, married by a man rich and distinguished; and she let them make a match for her with a little clerk in the Department of Education. She was simple since she could not be adorned; but she was unhappy as though kept out of her own class; for women have no caste and no descent, their beauty, their grace, and their charm serving them instead of birth and fortune. Their native keenness, their instinctive elegance, their flexibility of mind, are their only hierarchy; and these make the daughters of the people the equals of the most lofty dames. She suffered intensely, feeling herself born for every delicacy and every luxury. She suffered from the poverty of her dwelling, from the worn walls, the abraded chairs, the ugliness of the stuffs. Madams Loisel learned the horrible life of the needy. She made the best of it, moreover, frankly, heroically. The frightful debt must be paid. She would pay it. They dismissed the servant; they changed their rooms; they took an attic under the roof. She learned the rough work of the household, the odious labors of the kitchen. She washed the dishes, wearing out her pink nails on the greasy pots and the bottoms of the pans. She washed the dirty linen, the shirts and the towels, which she dried on a rope; she carried down the garbage to the street every morning, and she carried up the water, pausing for breath on every floor. And, dressed like a woman of the people, she went to the fruiterer, the grocer, the butcher, a basket on her arm, bargaining, insulted, fighting for her wretched money, sou by sou.
me. Loisel seemed aged now. She had become the robust woman, hard and rough, of a poor household. Badly combed, with her skirts awry and her hands red, her voice was loud, and she washed the floor with splashing water. 

1. Tone is a writers attitude toward the writer or speaker towards the subject, the audience, or toward him/herself. What is De Maupassant's attitude toward Madame Loisel? Does it change or remain the same? Support with textual evidence.

Answer 1

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The tone changes from infatuated to sadness, and then to hopefulness.The tone of the narrator is infatuation with Madame Loisel. In the beginning of the excerpt he talks about the elegance, beauty, and humbleness.  When the narrator begins speaking about the debt that needs to be paid and what Madame Loisel went through to pay the debt. Her hardships according to the narrator were too many but it made her a stronger woman, a heroine as he mentions.  

 

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