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    The Necklace Mathilde Loisel is "pretty and beguiling" yet feels she has been naturally introduced to a group of troublesome monetary status. She was offered to a humble agent in the Ministry of Education, who can bear to furnish her lone with an unassuming however not awkward way of life. Mathilde feels the weight of her neediness strongly. She laments her present circumstance and spends unlimited hours envisioning a more excessive presence. While her better half communicates his pleasure at the

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    The Necklace Greed Essay

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    The Necklace: The Cupidity of Mathilde Loisel Greed is a vice that cannot be satisfied; the intense desire of material objects often leads to hardship and regret. Mathilde Loisel, a middle class woman, desperately wishes that she was a higher class, so she can experience the luxuries of life. In Maupassant’s short story The Necklace, avarice corrupts Mathilde’s expectations of life as well as her state of mind. Despite only being born into a bourgeois family, Mathilde laments over the notion that

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    to the destruction of one’s future. Firstly, Madame Loisel shows greed throughout the story because she has a comfortable life, she has a servant and food on the table, but she desires more delicate meals. She is not happy with what she has. Although Madame Loisel doesn’t have a lot of money, she is still evidently greedy. Even though she is a lovely woman, she feels she isn’t worth anything simply because she has no nice jewelry. Mathilde constantly suffers due to the fact that she has nothing

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    The Necklace

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    Meaningless Pursuit In the short story “The Necklace,” Mathilde Loisel is a middle-class women that believes she is entitled to a much grander life than her own. Although she has everything she needs to be happy, a loving husband, a home, and food on the table, she is still not satisfied with her life. She is consistently jealous of her close friend, Madame Forestier, and wishes her friend’s life to be her own. The story describes Mathilde as being a generally attractive woman but her beauty is

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    “The Necklace”. The story is about a young woman named Mathilde Loisel. Born in a family of artisans, she wasn’t rich, but beautiful and glamor. But she never feel satisfied of what she had and never stop dreaming to have more, to live a luxury life with expensive homes and glittering dresses, and eventually paid hard for her nonsense dreams. In “The Necklace”, Guy de Maupassant uses third person limited narration to show how Mathilde Loisel changes in how she

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    The Necklace A young beautiful maiden longing for the finer things in life becomes her greatest downfall. Whereas losing everything can make you bitter., greediness can sometimes lead forced humbleness.   The author of the story introduces us to Mathilde. She is the focus of the story. Noted for her beauty, she often dreamt as many do of being born in the wrong family. The setting of the story tells us that this fair maiden lived in an error where a caste system existed. It was her misfortune

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    changed Madame Loisel. The syntax of this conversation is short. Because of its brevity, Maupassant suggests that Madame Loisel has greatly changed and longs for her simple life. When she lost the necklace and had to work for ten years to repay it, she took on more responsibility through labor. It took a toll on her body, and she yearned for her less complicated life. Later in the paragraph, on the top of page 28, the sentence structure starts to become more lengthy. Madame Loisel tells Madame Forestier

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    that it ends up leading them to live a fantasy life. In the story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant shows two types of people: Mathilde Loisel who is very selfish and oblivious to wealth she cannot have; her husband M. Loisel who accepts his life being unfortunate but will do anything to keep his wife happy. Mathilde never becomes satisfied with the life she has. Mathilde is so obsessed with living the fantasy of being wealthy. In the beginning of the story Mathilde’s husband hands her an invitation

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    It’s a proclivity of humans to always want more than they can realistically obtain. Whether the top thing on our wish lists is a new phone or an entirely new life, people are almost never satisfied. Mathilde Loisel from The Necklace is a great example of someone who fits into this mold. On the other hand, there are some rare individuals who are perfectly happy with what they have. Finny from A Separate Peace is one of these people. He is satisfied with his talents and almost never asks for more than

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    of the short story, Mathilde Loisel tells Madame Forestier what happened. In the beginning of the short story, Mathilde Loisel was jealous of other women in the social class. She wanted more, she wanted more wealth. Now after getting what she wanted for a singular night, everything went awry. Mathilde Loisel and her husband lost everything. They had to work for 10 hard years to pay off the $36,000 necklace to buy Madame Forestier a new one. Now karma came for Mathilde Loisel. After wanting more,

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