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Final Timed-writing
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Zhouwei
06-21-2007
Timed-writing Three
From the Necklace, what might have been the quality of Mme. Loisel’s life if she had not lost the necklace? Is her life better or worse now?
The assumption on the quality of Mme. Loisel’s life if she had not lost the necklace will be based on a deduction from the depiction of the heroine. Before the ball, Loisel have been so absorbed in a far-fetched dream of luxurious life. After the ball, there is a reference to her disappointment. Without incidents shocking enough to wake her from the dream, the strong obsession will probably continue. Loisel’s life will not be so different from how it was before the ball-dreaming, grudging, grouching vainly. What may change is that since she has experienced the life of the upper-class once, the dream may become more embodied, and the eagerness more violent.
In reflecting on the second question, what should be taken into consideration is that life of Mme. Loisel does not necessarily go without calamities other than the lost of the necklace. It is not so hard to imagine, that in another ball, arranged by Loisel’s responsible husband to ease her nerve after the first ball, Mme. Loisel lost a ring borrowed from another friend of hers. She will be hit back to reality, consequentially, just in the way how she has been after the first ball. What I want to suggest here is that misfortune will be bound to her as long as she is indulged in unrealistic dreams and as long as her husband doesn’t give up the attempt to satisfy his wife so blindly, so unqualifiedly. The lost of the necklace is not pure bad luck; acting reversely to her living condition will at last cost her something, as the tuition fee of the course: Getting back to the real world.
Is such a kind of life better or worse? To answer this question, we have to figure out a set and universally acknowledged criterion to judge good from bad. However, it is quite discouraging that such a criterion does not exist, or is not universally acknowledged. This question is identical to one asking whether growing up is good or bad. How can we be so confident that being realistic, as Mme. Loisel becomes after the lost of the necklace, is a sign of better living quality?-or, oppositely, worse than indulging in a dream, wild and unrealistic? The judgment of good or bad will never come as a result of a heated discussion by the bystanders, but a result of the subject’s conception. So for the second question, the answer should be: Mme. Loisel knows.
If we are enabled to rule out the possibility of other big incidents, Mme. Loisel’s life will still change gradually, into the way we witness now. In the long run, by the erosion of time and vague signs of warning against her quixotism, she will turn realistic. Just like what we say everyday, people grow up, whether they love it or not.
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