“The Necklace,” by Guy De Maupassant, tells a story of a materialistic woman named Mathilde Loisel who is “one of the pretty and charming girls” but always dream of luxury and wealth. One day, her husband got an invitation to a ball from "the Minister of Public Instruction” (345). Mathilde started asking for dress and jewelry so that she could dress nicely and impressed those who were invited. Her husband afforded to buy her a dress but not jewelry, so she had to borrow from a rich friend. She found the one that suited her the best which is the most expensive look like one-a diamond necklace. After the ball night, she lost the necklace and secretly replaced it with a new one which cause her and her husband 10 years to pay off all their debt so that to find out the necklace was a fake in the end. Most readers will see this story represent the unnecessary lost and ironic. However, the story actual shows how Mathilde Loisel’s life had improved. Not coming from a rich family, all the luxury life that she always dreams of which she felt she deserved to have but couldn’t made her feel “suffered ceaselessly” (345). A pain that cannot fade away. Mathilde Loisel feels herself “born for all the delicacies and all the luxury”. She's obsessed with dresses and jewels “and she loved nothing but that” (345). Yet, being cheated by life even though she had her pretty appearance, she was “born in a family of Clerks”, married to “a little clerk”, “dress plainly because she couldn’t dress well” and lived in a house with “the wretched look of the walls, form the worn-out chairs, from the ugliness of the curtains” with “the sight of the little Breton peasant, who did her humble housework” (345). All of though “tortured her and made her angry” (345). She had to live a life “suffered from the poverty of her dwelling” that make her lack access to the comfort of the upper-class life that she thought she