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The Necklace

            In Guy de Maupassant's, "The Necklace", creates in Malthlide Loisel, the main character, a self-absorbed wife who feels as though she deserves the world at any cost and how she faces the consequences of her selfishness. Inevitably, her self-centeredness causes her to become blind to the real world that surrounds her, making her forget her social and financial position. Malthlide the housewife of a clerk, never had lived a life of riches, but it was the one thing she yearned for more than anything. She disregarded all of the arduous sacrifices her loving husband achieved for her. With absolute conceit she looked at life with a bleak and an unhappy outlook for her life and the future she would live. Mme. Loisel does nothing to make her position in society any better; instead she does the opposite with her constant false pride and manipulation of her hardworking husband. The stories" main focus is how Malthlide's childish personality causes her to live a life of poverty and a corroded dream. .
             At the begging of the story, the negativity and selfishness Mme. Loisel irradiates are reflected in her useless day dreams of a life she couldn't even live in dreams. The author shows how shallow the she is when he says that, "she let herself be married to a little clerk." (Maupassant 177) The narrator's description of Malthlide sets a tone of misfortune as though the reader should feel sorry for Malthlide. .
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             She hates everything about her life and the reader's pity for her turns to a feeling of disgust because of her constant unhappiness. .
             In some ways she knows that she will never be able to move up in society but she chooses to feel as though she is "suffered from poverty of her dwelling." which " tortured her and made her angry." (Maupassant 178) These foolish and troubling feelings are the main cause of the stories eventual conflict which is foreshadowed by the characters upsetting actions throughout the begging.


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