How Does Madame Loisel's Character Change

Guy de Maupassant develops Madame Loisel’s character by showing how she changes from being such a brat to a hard working lady. She first acts very ungrateful for what she has but changes throughout the story in her actions. She is extremely ungrateful for what she had in the beginning of the story. For example, she says in the story, “For ten francs you can get two or three beautiful roses. That didn’t satisfy her at all.“No, there’s nothing more humiliating than to look poverty-stricken among a lot of rich women.” She does not take pride in what she has and the quote perfectly goes with her trait of being ungrateful. She got the necklace she wanted and was able to go to the party with all she wanted, but she was still emotionally embarrassed about how she looked with an old, raggedy coat. For example, in the story she says “She felt this and wanted to escape quickly so that the other women, who were enveloping themselves in their rich furs, wouldn’t see her.” In the quote, she seems embarrassed about how her coat looked compared to the others at the party. She was too busy comparing herself to others at the dance, when she wore her

For instance, she said “She came to know all the heavy household chores, the loathsome work of the kitchen. She washed the dishes, wearing down her pink nails on greasy casseroles and the bottoms of saucepans. She did the laundry, washing shirts and dishcloths, which she hung on a line to dry; she took the garbage down to the street every morning, and carried water upstairs, stopping at every floor to get her breath.” The quote gives an explanation that she started to work hard because she finally realized it was her fault she lost the necklace and she had to work diligently to pay back the necklace she have lost. She was able to pay back the necklace she has mistakenly lost even if the necklace in the first place was a