Vainglory brings pain Being beautiful and charming, Madame Loisel has always had the desire of being rich and having an ornate life. The consequence of her vanity that caused by her eagerness toward fancy things has been visible even before she goes to the dance. Unable to satisfy her vanity, “she suffered continually” (Maupassant 5). Her dismal feeling repeats several times before she goes to the dance, which strengthens the idea of that vanity causes suffering. Her affection for luxuries is so strong that “she would cry for days at a time, from sadness, regret, despair and distress” because she does not own those luxuries. All these emotional words emphasize her pain due to her narcissism. She has always believed that her life will be better
