Society prevents people from seeing the difference from what they need in life and what they want to have in life. In this case it jeopardized a beautiful woman’s future with her family and her social standing. Her insecurity has come at a huge price for her and the family. The necklace is a symbol that teaches a lesson that most people never learn in their life. The moral of this story to be told is that to envy someone else for something they have first a person must realize what they have. No matter how beautiful Mathilde looked on the outside that night at the ball with her new dress and jewelry she was still just as fake as that necklace on the inside. Mathilde proved in this story as did the necklace that pride and envy can destroy the very foundation that an individual has built their life
Society prevents people from seeing the difference from what they need in life and what they want to have in life. In this case it jeopardized a beautiful woman’s future with her family and her social standing. Her insecurity has come at a huge price for her and the family. The necklace is a symbol that teaches a lesson that most people never learn in their life. The moral of this story to be told is that to envy someone else for something they have first a person must realize what they have. No matter how beautiful Mathilde looked on the outside that night at the ball with her new dress and jewelry she was still just as fake as that necklace on the inside. Mathilde proved in this story as did the necklace that pride and envy can destroy the very foundation that an individual has built their life