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The Necklace Selfishness

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Good authors create interesting characters that evoke some emotion from their readers. That is the case of the protagonist, Mathilde Loisel, in Guy de Maupassant’ story “The Necklace.” Mathilde comes across as selfish and unsatisfied person and is easy to dislike. She first shows the quality of selfishness by purchasing a dress with money which her husband “ had set aside just that amount to buy a rifle” (Maupassant 222). Mathilde was so worried about buying a dress she didn’t even think about her husband. She proves herself to be unsatisfied when she is allowed to pick out some jewelry from her wealthy friend, but she declines the jewelry and asks “‘ haven’t you something else?’”(Maupassant 225). Mathilde turned down gold and jewels and
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