Mathilide Loisel deserves readers’ pity because she is just a poor peasant who just wanted to impress everyone at a party full of rich people. In his short story “The Necklace” (1884), French writer Guy De Maupassant portrays Mathilide as this girl who just wants to impress people, and states: “She would so have liked to please, to be envied, to be charming, to be sought after” (1)”. Mathilide was basically born poor and her determination to impress would ultimately be her downfall. Mathilide was born into a family of clerks and chose to marry a little clerk at the Ministry of Public Instruction. Imagine being born poor and seeing the stuff you want, but can’t get since you’re poor. All she could do was dream of fancy furnishings and parties.
