What tone is created through Maupassant's use of third person limited narrotor?"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant's employment of the third-person point
of view used in his short story 'The Necklace" provides the perspective of Mathilde
Loisel solely. Thus, the story is told in a subtlely ironic tone as Maupassant writes a
social criticism of the bourgeosie, especially the weak and unimaginative M. Loisel, who
is a minor clerk in the ministry office. For, he is completely manipulated by his wife,
who complains of not having a dress and jewels; then, when she loses the necklace, he
never criticizes, but meekly accepts the unfortunate life they must
live.

Maupassant's characteristic irony is certainly
evinced in his use of the third-person vantage point with Mme. Loisel. For, her
hypocrisy in social pretenses costs her many a miserable year, and, then, she has
acquired no humility as she proudly refuses to inform Madame Forestier that she has lost
the necklace.  Even when she encounters Mme. Forestier, Mme. Loisel's pettiness is
exhibited as she blames her old school friend for her misfortunes.  This pettiness
backfires in great ironic proportions when Mme. Forestier informs her that the
necklace was faux.

Clearly, the use of third-person point
of view affords Guy de Maupassant the vantage point for ridicule, both of the
bourgeoisie in the person of Monsieur Loisel and of the pettiness and hypocrisy of
Madame Loisel.