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- Mathilde wants this necklace, but she cannot have it right away since she has to open the case first. The very fact that the necklace is hidden away from view gives Mathilde the idea that it is very valuable, and by the end of the story the reader learns that it was not.
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Mathilde does not tell Madame Forestier that she lost the necklace because she is embarrassed and proud. Mathilde Loisel believes that she was born below her proper station in life.
Just as Mathilde was oblivious to the small pleasures that her life once afforded her, she is oblivious to the fact that her greed and deception are what finally sealed her fate. A detailed description and in-depth analysis of Mathilde Loisel in The Necklace.
All at once, in a black satin box, Madame Loisel unearthed a superb diamond necklace, and her heart began pounding with unrestrained desire. Her hands trembled when she picked up the necklace. She placed it on her throat, against her high-necked dress, and remained ecstatic in front of her reflection.
Unable to find a carriage, Mathilde and her husband walk towards the Seine, “desperate and shivering.” They eventually find a carriage but it is “those old, nocturnal broughams that you see in Paris only at night as if they were ashamed of their squalor by day.”
Mathilde's quite vain about her "feminine charms." Her vanity may be why she's unwilling to go to the ball unless she looks better than everyone else there. And when she does go to the ball, that's exactly what she is:
Her hands trembled as she took it. She fastened it around her throat, over her high-necked dress, and stood lost in ecstasy as she looked at herself. Then she asked, hesitating, full of anxiety: "Would you lend me that,—only that?" "Why, yes, certainly." She sprang upon the neck of her friend, embraced her rapturously, then fled with her ...
But suddenly she uttered a cry. She had no longer the necklace around her neck! Her husband, already half undressed, demanded: "What is the matter with you?"
