The Necklace

by Guy de Maupassant

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

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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...

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Posted by amethystrose on October 8, 2008 at 4:35 AM

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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

Posted by amber-two on October 10, 2008 at 4:14 AM

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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.

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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

Posted by desiree123 on October 13, 2008 at 6:52 AM

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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??

Posted by stray on October 14, 2008 at 3:07 AM

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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...

Posted by jackee08 on October 15, 2008 at 1:12 AM

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