Why is Mathilde in "The Necklace" a failure as a person, as a wife, and as a friend?

Mathilde Loisel in Guy DeMaupassant's "The Necklace" does not appreciate all that she has and wishes for more.  She thinks she is poor, but she has a maid who comes to clean the...

Loisel in Guy DeMaupassant's "The Necklace" does not appreciate all that she has and wishes for more.  She thinks she is poor, but she has a maid who comes to clean the house, and she has never had to work a day in her life.  In this way, she is a spoiled, selfish person who only cares about appearances

Mathilde seems to always have self pity and not honest to her friends, she takes for gratted all the things that her huband gives her.

she used her friend just to ge what she wanted because shes soo spoiled and she wasnt a good wife from the beginning because she always put her husband down for not being rich....she was just all around selfish

well to me this is a well known story in life about mans hunger for more. she is not a good wife because no matter what her husband does for her she still isnt happy. and well as a person she wanted so much stuff. when she could of just whent and bought some roses. instead she wines.... and as a friend she should of been straight up with her friend that lent her the necklace.... is dat a good answer??

Mathilde Loisle is a failure as a person because, she is selfish. She is a failure as a wife because, she was greedy and spent the money that was going to by a gun for her husband on a dress. She is a failure as a friend becuase, she lied to her friend and said she broke the necklase, when she didn't...