Character Trait Essay The Necklace
In 'The Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant, Madame Mathlide Loisel is a dynamic character who starts of as a middle class lady and by the end she was deprived. Some people are happy and proud of the life they were born into or the life they worked hard to get, but some people desire more than they have. Mme. Loisel is a woman with a pretty face and a loyal husband. As middle class citizens, their expenses are limited -- they can only get what they can afford, which are mostly just their necessities in life (food, rent, etc.). Their finance is not to far from being categorized as low class citizens, for those people are constantly begging for food and money. But Mme. Loisel's thoughts are constantly just dreaming about being in the high class rank. The money, the clothes, the silk drawn drapes with the embroidered flowers on the tips is all considered high class.
When the story beings Mme. Loisel was a middle class, dissatisfied woman desperately wanting to have the rich fabulous life. 'She had no evening clothes, no jewels, nothing. But those were the things she wanted -- she felt that was the kind of life for her.' Mme. Loisel does not have and cannot afford expensive items. She wants the things that she can't have. With her dissatisfaction about her life, she thinks the life she has now isn't the kind of life for her. If Mme. Loisel was given a chance to have the rich life she would cry yes at that very moment. One day her husband and her were invited an affluent, elegant party. ''No... there's nothing more humiliating than to look poor among a lot of rich women.' But her husband exclaimed, 'My, but you're silly! Go see your friend Mme. Forestier and ask her to lend you some jewelry.'' Mme. Loisel considers herself poor and she shows that she is intimidated by rich people. She thinks she knows how rich people will react to middle class citizens. Mme. Loisel shows that she only thinks...