In the short story The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant, the envy and greed showed by the character Mathilde leads to her destruction both mentally and physically. Always dreaming of a life she could not have, Mathilde became so envious to live a life of that of the rich; believing she was born into the wrong type of family brings much disappointment. It describes it as, “She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of being known, understood, loved, wedded, by any rich man,” (Maupassant). Mathilde thought she had no way of being well known because she had not married a rich man. It is given that she has settled for a not so rich man who has a taste for simple things while Mathilde has a taste for the wealth and how other women would envy her if
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She wanted other women to want to be her, and she felt that was just what she needed to make that happen. Going to the ball made her feel like one of the upperclass, rich women. When Mathilde loses the necklace, everything takes a turn for the worst, yet again. Her and her husband felt bad for not only losing the necklace, but also that they could not afford a new one of what they thought to be the same quality. Therefore, they go to buy another one just like it and see that it would be their entire lifes savings. Which made her realize how caught up in this lie she was and how it had changed her. Mine. Loisel’s husband, yet again, seeks to provide. “He compromise all the rest of his life, risked his signature without even knowing if he could meet it; and, frightened by the pains yet to come, by the black misery which was about to fall upon him, by the prospect of al the physical privations and of all the moral tortures which he was to suffer, he went to get the new necklace, putting down upon the merchant’s counter thirty-six thousand francs,” (Maupassant). However, the debt in which they owed still needed to be paid; they gave up many things. All of this, I am sure, would have brought upon much stress, for it was more responsibilities for them …show more content…
It describes Mine. Loisel as aged and, “a woman of impoverished households- strong and hard and rough,” (Maupassant). Mathilde realizes what she has lost and how different things are now. When Mathilde runs into Mme. Forestier, she is startled at what Mathilde has become to be. She informs Mme. Forestier of the debt and the struggles of the past ten years in which Mme. Forestier’s reply was, “Oh, my poor Mathilde! Why, my necklace was paste. It was worth at most five hundred francs!” (Maupassant).
Getting so caught up in ourselves many seem to lose sight of who they really are, or have been. Desiring something so greatly that is brings us to our downfall is something very easy to get caught up in. Greed can destroy someone so heavily that many people become foreign to their surroundings, and even those around them. Greed can come about in even the smallest of ways. Knowing how to handle it comes with self-discipline; however, in my opinion Mathilde was lacking just
She wanted other women to want to be her, and she felt that was just what she needed to make that happen. Going to the ball made her feel like one of the upperclass, rich women. When Mathilde loses the necklace, everything takes a turn for the worst, yet again. Her and her husband felt bad for not only losing the necklace, but also that they could not afford a new one of what they thought to be the same quality. Therefore, they go to buy another one just like it and see that it would be their entire lifes savings. Which made her realize how caught up in this lie she was and how it had changed her. Mine. Loisel’s husband, yet again, seeks to provide. “He compromise all the rest of his life, risked his signature without even knowing if he could meet it; and, frightened by the pains yet to come, by the black misery which was about to fall upon him, by the prospect of al the physical privations and of all the moral tortures which he was to suffer, he went to get the new necklace, putting down upon the merchant’s counter thirty-six thousand francs,” (Maupassant). However, the debt in which they owed still needed to be paid; they gave up many things. All of this, I am sure, would have brought upon much stress, for it was more responsibilities for them …show more content…
It describes Mine. Loisel as aged and, “a woman of impoverished households- strong and hard and rough,” (Maupassant). Mathilde realizes what she has lost and how different things are now. When Mathilde runs into Mme. Forestier, she is startled at what Mathilde has become to be. She informs Mme. Forestier of the debt and the struggles of the past ten years in which Mme. Forestier’s reply was, “Oh, my poor Mathilde! Why, my necklace was paste. It was worth at most five hundred francs!” (Maupassant).
Getting so caught up in ourselves many seem to lose sight of who they really are, or have been. Desiring something so greatly that is brings us to our downfall is something very easy to get caught up in. Greed can destroy someone so heavily that many people become foreign to their surroundings, and even those around them. Greed can come about in even the smallest of ways. Knowing how to handle it comes with self-discipline; however, in my opinion Mathilde was lacking just