In the story The Necklace the author’s theme is to show us that greed and envy can lead to destruction. In this story Mathilde is a very envious woman whom always dreamed of a life that she could not have. She was very charming and beautiful woman who thought that she must have been born into the wrong life, since she had no way of getting known and married by a rich man. She married a simple middle class man and lived a middle class life. All the while she dreamed of living the life of the rich and famous with beautiful gowns and glittering jewelry.
Then one day it happened that she and her husband where invited to a dinner ball. Her husband, Mr. Loisel thought this would make his wife so very happy since this is what she spent all of her time day dreaming of. Here it was, the thing that consumed her finally, but she was not happy. In fact, Mathilde was even more distraught because it brought to her attention that she had nothing proper to wear. Mr. Loisel sympathized with his wife and knowing he had money set aside for a new gun, he gave her 400 francs. This was enough money for a pretty dress, not too fancy, but pretty because he knew this would be a rare occasion.
As the day drew near Mathilde’s envy overtook her once more and she became distraught and because, she did not have any jewelry to flaunt. Mr. Loisel then tells her that she could just wear natural flowers. But Mathilde refuses saying that she would appear poor among the other rich women. Her husband than tells her to see if her friend Madame Forestier could lend her some jewelry she then goes and pick out a very elegant diamond necklace she goes to the ball and everyone is looking at her and enjoying her company and for that time she was living her dream.
she then returns home and begins to change when she notices that she does not have the necklace anymore she then tells begins to act very frantic wondering how she can return and he uses his money he had saved for a vacation with friends to...