Chagrin, Woman versus the Society

James Joyces remains and Guy de Maupassants The Diamond Necklace satirize the conflict between wo while and golf club. They illustrate the lives of dickens very physic tout ensembley different women of the common class and how they struggle against their environment, for alliance and hazard seal their lives with chagrin.Joyce is much trenchant than Maupassant in revealing the fictitious character in relation to community and friendly environment, because Joyce uses plot, design, posture, and language to deliver subtly what the clay means in the reputation, wherein the clay lines female horses frailty and commonness, and a life of conflict with herself and her environment, which she is not aware of, epoch Maupassant employs more of plot, narration, and character to enact a womans satiric lifelong struggle to resist her fate, which direct her, paradoxically, to become her destiny, after all.Joyce does not reveal the meaning of the title corpse in the plot, which makes it quite awkward to understand the plot and its connection with clay. Soon the plot exposes itself- it is a story about how something so simple can be so entangled too. female horses simple life has its own complications, because she struggles with society and her destiny. Joyce provides expand about female horses life and how she goes about it, day in and day out. For female horse, she is an efficient and reliable psyche, and a peacemaker. She feels proud of her work, which is portrayed in the barmbracks that she confirms she made herself.She too states that she is happy with her life, point if she has no companion, and she tells Fleming that she didnt requirement any rout or man either (Joyce 184). The ring represents the synecdoche for marriage. The ring is excessively mentioned several times in the story, in one case by Fleming, once by mare, and then during the game at Joes house. This ring represents female horses struggle. Apparently, there exists a gap between her self-perceptions and social perceptions of herself. maria thinks of herself as more superior. She views Fleming as having the notions of a common woman (Joyce 184), and provided maria herself is exceedingly common.When Maria thinks about how many minutes her travels are, twenty minutes here and there, it underscores how empty her life is in that she fills it with ordinary numbers. Maria also wants to think that she is happy with being single, but when Fleming jokes her about it, she laughed. with thwarted shyness (Joyce 184). Disappointed juxtaposes with the satisfaction that Maria feels, which accentuates that she is not at all content with her life. The plot expresses, nevertheless, the cluelessness of Maria about herself, which makes it more effective to depict chagrin in several ways.Readers will also feel chagrin, because Maria is not just physically frail she is also mentally and emotionally frail too. Maupassant employs plot that also does not readily give remote the e nding. His story satirizes a womans struggle to resist her fate, which led her, ironically, to become her destiny. Loisel feels that she is born for something greater, and yet, as Maupassant illustrates, she was born as if through an illusion of destiny, into a family of clerks (Maupassant 297). This misplay implies how Loisel sees her whole life a huge error of fate. But error takes in a new life, as Loisel makes the biggest of all- acceptation Mme.Forestiers diamond necklace. This necklace brings Loisel the happiest day of her life, when she receives the life she dreams of- attention, richness, and fame. Ironically, this necklace also seals Loisels fate to poverty and toil, both of which she detests. She loses the diamond necklace and she and her husband paid for it for ten years, only(prenominal) to discover in the ending, that the necklace is false. The ending shows the climax of the struggle and underlines that women cannot fight society and their destinies. The language t hat Joyce uses portrays the common language of Marias class.Joyce uses the words spic-and-span and span and nice and bright, which are words of commoners and their life of toil (Commentary 192). dustup are also frequently repeated, which symbolizes the lack of sophistication in Marias life. The repetitive use of AndAnd. And and alwaysalways (Joyce 183) is a syntactical pattern (Commentary 192) of the disproportionate plainness of Marias viewpoint of her life, and how readers also come to understand how boring her life is. The language reinforces the plot that depicts Marias humdrum life, and exposes the struggle against society and fate.Maria ardently believes that she necessitate no man or ring, but when a common man gives her some attention, she floats in the air enough to forget her expensive plum cake. Thus, Maria cannot deny it she yearns for a lifelong companion, person her fate has denied her, and someone society is quick to point out as the source of her retirement and unhappiness. Maupassant uses narration to illustrate the satire of Loisels conflict with her life. He narrates the thoughts of a womans yearning for a wealthy life. Loisel dreams of elegant dinners, of the gleam silver (Maupassant 298).This narration represents the perspective of Loisel and her endless chagrin. The narration contrasts her life sooner and after, however, of a dream come true. Before the diamond necklace, Loisel has at least a maid and comfortable lodgings. After the loss of the diamond necklace, Loisel is squeeze to be who she does not want to be- a common working woman. Furthermore, Maupassant also uses strong characterization, as he narrates the changes in Loisel. From a charming small woman, Loisel transforms into strong, hard woman, the crude woman of the poor household (Maupassant 303).Loisel has become the person she hates, and she has learned to embrace the life she could not ever cherish. Maupassant, however, seems to want to stop it in on Loisel, when he ends the story with the revelation of the false diamond necklace. Loisel must have fainted, or even unsurprisingly, died from chagrin, after this revelation. Joyce predominantly uses the perspective of Maria, from his choice of words, although in a way, it is also revealed that Maria is not who she thinks she is, in the viewpoint of separate people. In general, she believes that Everyone was so fond of Maria (Joyce 183).However, the lordly remarks about her spinsterhood, in the laundry shop and at her friends home, accentuates that people look down on her or pity her, because of her perspicuousness and state of singlehood. When Joyce says the tip of her nose nearly met the tip of her chin, this remarks of how people destine her homely features (Joyce 183). Joyce also designs the story in a way that is not always too obvious, and he compels readers to do extra work, which makes the story more effective in revealing the characters need for companionship.As readers analyze and r esearch about the missing lines of the song I Dreamt that I Dwelt, this pursuit for something more about Maria ironically responds to the attention that Maria craves for. Joyces story design is also different from Maupassants Moonlight, because Clay has a different and more meaningful connotation. The clay represents Marias emotional and mental frailty. When she chooses clay, a joke of the next-door girls on her, and which is not even directly stated by Joyce, clay represents the mortality of human beings (Commentary 190).Clay also reinforces the meaning of the omitted song lines. Joyce illustrates that Maria unconsciously forgets these lines, because it tells of suitors and vows that fate miss to give her. Clay hints that Maria will soon die without hold life, wherein society says that a lived life equals to a married life. Joyce is more effective than Maupassant in disclosing the fictional character in relation to community and social environment, because Joyce uses plot, design , perspective, and language to show delicately what the clay indicates in the story.The clay portrays Marias frailty and commonness, and her conflict with her society and destiny. It is also a wind of her mortality, which is limited to a life of loneliness that she has to bear with. Maupassant, on the other hand, addresses the same conflict with dark humor and satire. Of the two, Joyce creates a more typical image of a woman who has nothing, who is more pitiable, because of her lack of awareness and entry of her lifes perpetual struggles.