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The Necklace

The short story "Necklace” presents Mathilde Loisel, a "pretty and charming" woman who feels that the family she was born to into a family of low economic status. Mathilde was married to a clerk in the ministry of education, and he cannot provide the first-class experience of the comfortable life she thinks she deserves. Mathilde feels that she is getting overwhelmed by the shackles of poverty. She spends a lot of time imagining an extravagant lifestyle. Mathilde's reality and the situation is that she is not from a high social class she thinks she deserves and not any wealthier but leaves in illusions.

Mathilde is seemingly living in a world of fantasy; she is not rich and does not belong to a social class that she thinks she deserves. The life of Mathilde is like an illusion. The kind of life that is in her mind directly different from the life that she thinks is her class. She dreams of having a flourishing life; she puts a lot of pressure on his husband, who is just a clerk of the ministry. She makes him have a lot of pressure because the kind of life she anticipates is far from the kind of life that he can lead. Also, Mathilde believes that because she is beautiful and charming, she deserves to have great things contrary to what she is having. She believes that she is more beautiful than the other men that are being followed keenly by rich men and that that...