Envy can get us into all kinds of trouble. Envy is wanting something that someone else has for ourselves. In the story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, the main protagonist of the story is envious of other social classes. Mathilde Loisel was beautiful but without the riches she so desired. In the opening paragraphs; de Maupassant paints the picture of a beautiful woman who wishes to have valuable things in her home, a woman who is very unhappy being of a lower class. Madame Loisel's desire to be considered a socialite from the perspective of others is ultimately her undoing. Madame Loisel has a friend who she refuses to see because of the jealousy she harbors. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay Madame Loisel receives an invitation to a party full of rich women, at first she is unhappy because she has no nice clothes to wear. Her husband agrees to give her four hundred francs so she can buy a dress. After purchasing a dress, Madame Loisel is still unhappy as she has no jewelry to wear that makes her feel like she belongs to the upper class. She then visits her friend who lends her a necklace that Madame Loisel thinks is extremely expensive. After the party she and her husband return home and discover they have lost the necklace; they both look for him but cannot find him. Instead of telling her friend that she lost the necklace, they decide to replace it, which causes them a large debt. After many years of working to pay for the expensive necklace, she meets her friend who tells her that the original one she borrowed was made from fake jewelry. The story goes that if Madame Loisel had not been dissatisfied with what she had and had not made do with what she could, she would never have lost the borrowed necklace and would not have been forced to replace it. Mathilda was unhappy in her life; he believed he should be part of the upper class. This was her dream: to live in lavish homes, wear expensive clothes and marry a rich man. We see this at the beginning of the story in his description of Matilda. Since she did not come from a wealthy family, she had decided to marry a clerk. Matilde led a modest life even though she did not belong to the upper class. She had an apartment with modest things and also had a maid who did her housework. Looking at the things Mathilda owned before the incident with the necklace we can deduce that she lived well even if it didn't live up to her high expectations. The troubles for the Loisels began recently with the invitation to the party by the Ministry of Education. When Mathilda receives this invitation, she is not happy about being able to attend, but is instead upset that she doesn't have a nice dress to wear. We see here that Mathilda is a very materialistic person. This selfishness leads her, at her husband's urging, to borrow a necklace from her rich friend that she believes is expensive. Her husband even gives her the money he saved to buy a new gun and go hunting just to please her. Mr. Loisel does not help matters in this way; it only allows Mathilda to become more self-centered in her appearance. At first he tries to convince her to wear a dress she already had, but this doesn't go down well with Mathilda and she ends up giving in to her selfishness. When she ends up losing the necklace, they both decide to be deceitful instead of telling the truth and admitting what happened. Because of this they get into huge debt and Matilde loses everything they had, including her beauty. After the party the couple takes a taxi home, Mathilda returns home and realizes she has lost the necklace. When the.