![]() ![]() The narrator highlights the contrast between her reality and her fantasies: as her mind wanders in expensive mansions furnished with gold and crystals, her reality is that of a working-class clerk’s wife. From the very beginning of the story, the reader is introduced to Mathilde’s inner thoughts and desires. ![]() According to Yadav (2019), “social morality was lost, the splendid life of the upper class and the moral concept of profit-seeking, influenced the various social classes, the vain and the pursuit of pleasure, and became the prevailing social atmosphere at that time” (p. Mathilde is the product of a capitalist society that only values the tangible fortunes and disregards the immoralities behind them. This mindset is reflected through the story’s protagonist, Mathilde Loisel, whose dream is a luxurious life that her working-class husband cannot provide for her. Maupassant’s The Necklace was written and published in 1884, a time when society was corrupt and chasing the materialistic pleasures of the upper-class life due to the Industrial Revolution. ![]()
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