This study aims at studying the role of micro elements in understanding the macro elements which both help in understanding and deciding the story line and determining the function of a text. In compliance with this aim, the researchers used content analysis of G. De Maupassant's “The Necklace ”. The bases of the content analysis were embodied in the following major hypotheses:
(1) Satisfactory understanding of a text depends on two related dimensions: the decontextualized knowledge and the contextualized knowledge of how to use a language appropriately in context.