For my comparison and contrast essay I am electing to use Mrs. Louise Mallard from Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour"and Mrs. Mathilde Loisel from Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace". In my essay I am not only going to compare and contrast these two ladies but also explain each one of the characters backgrounds, actions, and their motivations as well as each of their settings. The story of an hour , is among other things, a reflection of the idea that marriage is confining and limiting for women. It is Louise's reaction to her husband's death, her new found freedom and renewed excitement about life that illustrates to the reader that her previous existence was one in which she had no freedom, no excitement, no interest in the uncertainties that lie ahead. There is also this sence that was unacceptable for her to feel this way. To have an interest in driving her own future or to have any kind of joy in being alone, or living for oneself. Mrs. Louise Mallard lives in an era were women obeyed their husbands and took care of the house. Kate Chopin is a feminist writer. In Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace", Mathilde Loisel is attractive and pretty,but unhappy, very unhappy. She believes that life has played her falsely. She feels relegated to a lower station than she deserves. She wanted to be appreciated and loved by some rich gentleman from a good family, but instead, having no dowry, she had to settle for a junior clerk in the Ministry of Public Instruction. Mathilde is so humiliated by a lower-middle- class existence that she even refuses to see one of her old friends whom she has known from her days at the convent school. Madame Forestier is wealthy, and Mathilde finds visits to her to be painful to bear; so she spends her days hanging around her drab flat, sometimes crying the entire time, overcome with worry, regret, desperation, and distress. “The Story of an