Mathilde Loisel changes throughout the story from being materialistic to hardworking. In the beginning she was believed she needed to be rich in order to be happy. “She suffered constantly, feeling that all the attributes of a gracious life, every luxury, should rightly have been hers. The poverty of her rooms – the shabby walls, the worn furniture, the ugly upholstery-caused her pain” (Maupassant 224). Mathilde Loisel
Mathilde Loisel changes throughout the story from being materialistic to hardworking. In the beginning she was believed she needed to be rich in order to be happy. “She suffered constantly, feeling that all the attributes of a gracious life, every luxury, should rightly have been hers. The poverty of her rooms – the shabby walls, the worn furniture, the ugly upholstery-caused her pain” (Maupassant 224). Mathilde Loisel