Mathilde had a loving husband, who provided her with the necessities and a decent home. But this was never enough for her. In her head, she felt like she was born to live a life of luxury. When her husband tells her that he has an invitation to a ball, she refuses to go because she is naked: “…they have no clothes and, for this reason, they cannot go to the ball. Make your invitation to some fellow employee whose wife is more well-endowed than me." (de Maupassant) Mathilde's pride and superficiality do not allow her to be grateful and simply go to the ball. She manages to manipulate her husband into buying her a dress and also borrow an elegant necklace from a friend. After losing the necklace, Mathilde decides to lie to her friend and go into debt by buying a new one after ten years of working hard and downgrading things in her life. repay the debt of the necklace, Mathilde and her husband are now poor and struggling to make ends meet, her greed and pride have brought her to where she is at the end of the fantastical story about her desire for wealth and