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Mathilde's Unhappier In The Necklace

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“No... there’s nothing so humiliating as looking poor in the middle of a lot of rich women” (83), declares Matilde Loisel in Guy de Maupassant’s short story, “The Necklace.” At the center of the narratives is Madame Loisel’s self-centered actions. Madame Loisel believes she deserves more than a life of distress and modesty. Madame Loisel’s weakness of character, specifically her discontentment and selfish nature, causes her to waste ten years of the life she detested. The main reason Madame Loisel’s life ends in tragedy is her own unhappiness. Mathilde felt as if she deserved the finer things in life because she believed she was born for “every delicacy and luxury” (82). She constantly finds herself day dreaming about “silent antechambers”

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