There are endless lessons to be learned in life, and each person retrieves something different. In De Maupassant’s “The Necklace” Madame Matilda Loisel is an unhappy middle-class house wife of a petty clerk. However, Matilda dreams of a bigger and better lifestyle. Though always possessing a roof over her head, and never without food in her stomach, she made the mistake of seeing only what she did not have. Riches, exotic foods, and decorations …showed first 75 words of 688 total…

…showed last 75 words of 688 total…throughout the story her whole personality changed. Starting as a reserved, well mannered middle class lady with the grace, beauty and elegance of a wealthy woman she lost all that she had becoming a hard overworked, outspoken housewife of a poor petty clerk. The dreams of being one of those upper class ladies were crushed and her fate accepted, she was now appreciative for all that she had and took great measures to save it.