The good life and "the necklac

“The Necklace,” by de Maupassant, is a story filled with excessive wants and the repercussions of them. The story revolves around Mathilde Loisel. Mathilde is a woman very unhappy with her lot in life. She daydreams of being admired and wealthy. Her husband comes home one day with an invitation to a ball. She throws it to the ground declaring she has nothing to wear. Her husband gives her money for a new gown. Still this is not good enough. She has no jewels to wear. He suggests she borrow some from a friend. Mathilde agrees and borrows an expensive looking diamond necklace. After having a wonderful time at the ball, she arrives home and finds the necklace gone. After thorough searching, Mathilde and her husband realize it is gone. I

Mathilde, the protagonist, is both round and dynamic. The narrator paints her as egotistical and self-pitying. “She suffered endlessly, feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury,” writes de Maupassant (756). She daydreams of living in a great home with fine furnishings, “vast drawing rooms hung with antique skills …” (756). When her husband comes home with an invitation to a ball one would think she would be happy. But her self-pitying side shines through: “ I have no evening gown… give the invitation to one of your friends whose wife will be better turned out than I” (757). She has a nice life as it is. With a loving husband who gives her all the money he had saved to buy a gown for the evening. Again, this is not good enough. She now has no jewels to w

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