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Characteristics Of Madame Mathilde In The Necklace

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In the story “ The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant shows a character trait of Madame Mathilde Loisel who was an ungrateful, selfish,and greedy to her husband no matter what her poor loving husband does to make her happy it’s never enough for her. Throughout the story Madame Mathilde finds out what the true value of things are and see that having all these riches that she is getting doesn’t really matter as long as you have someone to care for you.
In the begin Madame Mathilde wasn’t really a person of expensive things. She thought that what would expensive things bring for example,“ She had no dresses, no jewels, nothing , And she loved nothing but that.”(Necklace) Madame here proves to be a women in which expensive taste doesn’t bring her joy but what a wrong turn that was to believe that she was a women of just love. Madame Mathilde is a selfish women that is very ungrateful to her husband. As shown throughout the story she shows this type of ingrateful act when her husband arrives and says,” Instead of being delighted as her husband hoped, she threw The invitation on the table with disdain murmuring.”(Necklace page 2) Here Madame Mathilde shows disrespect towards her husband. While other wife’s would be very excited to get an invitation she on the other …show more content…

After having everything given to her having servers for her 24/7 she still has the nerve to act like nobody likes her. She then implies to everyone that,“ she went to the fruiterer, the grocer, the butcher, her basket on her arm, bargaining, insulted, defending her miserable money sou by sou.” After everything that the butcher the grocer and the butcher do for her she still feel like everyone is lazy and useless. Her carelessness trait comes out showing that she really doesn’t care about nobody only herself. If Madame Loisel would of changed her attitude maybe many people would of helped her out with things and not try to do them by

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