Misplaced priorities combined with self-absorption created the character of Mathilde Loisel in the story, by Guy de Maupassant “The Necklace.” Mathilde has just about everything a woman could want: remarkable beauty, a loving husband, and a comfortable lifestyle. Material riches are the only category in which she falls short. This one factor sets up the conflict presented in the story. Throughout the turmoil that she must endeavor, due to her egotistical ways, one would think she would have a change in heart and mindset. Mathilde has a dissatisfying disposition that does not change even as her situation does; she is disgruntled being in the middle class, attending a first class event and ultimately being in the working class.
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He learns that not having anything but her theater dress upset her and offered her, basically, a blank check. She to think how much money she could extort from him right away, without him refusing or negotiating. Though she gets a great dress, she is not satisfied. Now she needs jewels. At the ball, with the dress and diamond necklace, she is on Cloud-9; all her dreams come true for the night. When it was time to go her dissatisfied disposition returns and she wallows at her middle class misfortune. She takes from people, but is never happy. She wants more, more, more and is never content with what she has and …show more content…
Her selfishness, lead to ten years of having to work hard to just get by. At the end she is still blaming other people for her problems and has only grown bitter towards the world. She blames her parents for not being a first class family and her being forced to marry only a school teacher. She blames her husband for caring about the materialistic things, as she does. She blames first class women for being and having more than her. Finally, she blames Mrs. Forrestier for the ten years of learning to do physical housework. Through the whole story she blames others for her misfortunes. The only difference in her disposition from the beginning is: at the end her unhappiness was because she had been through
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He learns that not having anything but her theater dress upset her and offered her, basically, a blank check. She to think how much money she could extort from him right away, without him refusing or negotiating. Though she gets a great dress, she is not satisfied. Now she needs jewels. At the ball, with the dress and diamond necklace, she is on Cloud-9; all her dreams come true for the night. When it was time to go her dissatisfied disposition returns and she wallows at her middle class misfortune. She takes from people, but is never happy. She wants more, more, more and is never content with what she has and …show more content…
Her selfishness, lead to ten years of having to work hard to just get by. At the end she is still blaming other people for her problems and has only grown bitter towards the world. She blames her parents for not being a first class family and her being forced to marry only a school teacher. She blames her husband for caring about the materialistic things, as she does. She blames first class women for being and having more than her. Finally, she blames Mrs. Forrestier for the ten years of learning to do physical housework. Through the whole story she blames others for her misfortunes. The only difference in her disposition from the beginning is: at the end her unhappiness was because she had been through