The necklace
...y all about, the ending just enhances the drama outcome. In the opening paragraph, Maupassant describes how eagerly Mathilde dream about the life of upper society. The invitation of the high-society even result a fight between her husband, Loisel, and herself. After the evening in the ball, she felt the wraps Loisel threw over her was a symbol of poverty class, and wanted to escape so as not to be remarked by the other women, who were enveloping themselves in costly furs; she was so proud and so afraid, thus the homage she endeavoring earned for can not be smashed. In my opinion, the story implies a allegorical level, what ruined a family is actually resulted from the pride and vanity of Mathilde, and the same sins would ruin others’ life either. In the former paragraph, why not Mathilde confessed her mistake for the lost of the necklace? Why she conceal the truth from her friend, Forestier? The same reason is her own foolish and illusory pride. And let us take a inside view again, after all that hardships paid for the necklace, Mathilde is still not aware of how foolish she used to be: “Oh, my poor Mathilde! How you are changed!” ”Yes, I have had days hard enough, since I have seen you, days wretched enough---and that becaus...