Greed In The Necklace By Guy De Maupassant

Read about greed from a story called ‘The Necklace’

The clergyman Andy Stanley once said, “Greed is not a financial issue. It’s a heart issue.” Greed can create problems in life, perhaps it could hurt personally or others around. The character emotion of greed can’t improve a person in any way. Story The Necklace wrote by Guy de Maupassant is about a woman who is an unsatisfied middle-class woman who wants wealth longing for expensive belongings, but in the end, it all seems to become disastrous. Others may say that the main character Mathilde Loisel deserves sympathy and life is to blame for her demise since she is a gorgeous woman, but only married to a middle-class man and does not have the fancy items she wants plus what she goes through

In the story Maupassant tells readers about how Mathilde’s feels and acts whenever she sees this friend “She had a well-to-do friend, a classmate of convent-school days whom she would no longer see, simply because she would feel so distressed… She would weep for days on end from vexation, regret, despair, and anguish.” (Maupassant 28). The main character obviously comes home frustrated when she gets to see and talk to this friend spending a day with a friend should to be fun not full of envy to the point where the two stop talking. Mathilde itches to have the same nice expensive goods as her friend, she wishes to move to a higher part of society status. Mathilde Loisel does not want to be in a low status nor does she want to be seen as a woman with a low status while she is out Mathilde wants to look her best like she is at the top just like her close friend she stopped visiting looking and having nice things. Woman understand this, when you dress up for an special occasion some might tend to want to make a outfit go together with jewellery. A simply stone or diamond could say much about who the person wearing it is although someone never entirely needs to wear jewelry this is where Mathilde comes in the story Mathilde says, “It’s embarrassing not to have a jewel or a gem nothing to wear on my dress. I’ll look like a [poor person]: I’d almost rather not go to that party.” (Maupassant 29). This is where Mathilde’s downfall starts where she thinks she has to have a jewel to look like she is in the higher status pool so she does not look down aponded and have her fantasy of having the fancy things she yearns for. If someone at a party with no jewelry people do not instantly think ‘Oh that person must be poor’ no, no one is going to notice a stone or diamond that sits on the arm or neck of