The Ten Year Debt: The Necklace By Guy De Maupassant

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The Ten Year Debt With a starving yearning for elegant belongings, Madame Loisel can’t help but to get into trouble. She dreams of a life where she has servants and fine tableware. Madame Loisel, in “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, is blinded by greed, envy and is manipulative. Furthermore, Madame Loisel feels like nothing is successful in her life. She blames her family for not being rich enough to provide the lifestyle she wants and for not being able to have a rich husband. Madame Loisel demonstrates her sorrow for not being able to afford nice possessions by sitting in her household and fantasizing about a life she never had. She criticizes her life and complains about what she doesn’t have, “Feeling that all the attributes of a gracious life, every luxury, should rightly have been hers” (de Maupassant 294). She feels she was meant to be rich. She portrays her greed by saying that if she attained a certain item, then she would be satisfied, but once she acquired it, she said that she wants something else. She wasn’t satisfied when her husband gave up his rifle money for her to buy a dress because then she wanted jewels to complete her outfit. She wants a fairytale ending with a rich prince and a pleasurable life, similar to the other rich women. …show more content…

She dreams of what she could have instead of focusing on what she has. “She would visualize elegant dinners with gleaming silver…exotic birds in a fairy forest,” (de Maupassant 295). She won’t go to her friend’s house since it reminds her that she is not wealthy. When her husband gets invited to a nice party, she is fuming at him for doing so. It takes her husband a lot of effort to acquire the invitation. She doesn’t want to comprehend other people having nice possessions she can’t have, “She would have loved to be envied,” (de Maupassant 295). She loves being envied like she envies

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