What Is The Essential Human Nature Of The Necklace By Guy De Maupassant

In Guy De Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace,” it shows an essential human nature through the Mathilde. First of all, people prioritize yourself more than anyone else. In the beginning of the story, Mathilde’s husband gives her the card which can participate the ball, but she refuses to go there because she mentions that she does not have clothes which suit for the ball. Therefore, her husband allows to buy it; however, she complains again that she does not have a jewel although her husband allow using money which, “amount to buy a gun and treat himself to a little shooting next summer on the plain of Nanterre, with several friends who went to shoot larks there of a Sunday” (3). She might be more considerate toward her husband and appreciate