The Necklace
...fe as it is. The narrator begins the story with a look into how she feels about her life. “She suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born for all the delicacies and all the luxuries. She suffered from the poverty of her dwelling, from the wretched look of the walls, from the worn out chairs, from the ugliness of the curtains. All conscious, tortured her and made her angry” ( Maupassant 178). This is ironic because in actuality she is not living in poverty and enjoys many luxuries including a housemaid and many other items mentioned by the narrator throughout the story. Another example of irony is when her husband gets invited to a ball. She doesn’t see it as an honor but more as a means of possessing more new things. After all of the hoopla about wanting to live like the rich this too is not enough. An example of this is stated by her in this excerpt “It annoys me not to have a single jewel, not a single stone, nothing to put on. I shall look like distress. I should almost rather not go at all. No; there’s nothing more humiliating than to look poor among other women who are rich” (181). She also goes on complaining about needing a new dress to spite that fact that she already has one. The truth is that she does have nice thin...